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Christmas hangovers reducing immune system?

I know lots of young people with mild covid, not so much older generation.

Think it is just a lot more socialising in places with more potential for contacts

Agree with others about peak number of people I know with it currently but most of them it has been brought in to the house by primary school age kids who have caught it at school and then taken the house out

I got a thing saying that the NHS would recognize my Netherlands jabs, I just needed to stop in at a vaccination centre to get my records updated. It asked me where I was in the UK. Holloway postcode entered.,.. Nearest place to get updated: Peterborough

Oh, we just have people with torches in front of members of local governments, not in front of national politicians.
But then your whole country is probably smaller than our smallest state.

And yes, cognitive dissonance is like a main theme with the covidiots.

Thanks!

Wtf tldr coming up:

Last Friday we went to a dinner at my bosses place, her family plus 5 coworkers plus my girlfriend.
Thinking that with everyone including her kids being vaccinated, and everyone doing a lft the same day plus trust in everyone beeing reasonably cautious we let down our guard.
Apart from our marriage party with 15 people end of October we never were more than 5 people unmasked inside the whole year, almost no restaurants or anything like that for 2 years, and started to be even more cautious again because of the shit numbers here.

Turns out bosses husband had gotten a red warning on the German COVID app on Wednesday.
There was someone positive at a small restaurant they visited exactly one week before we met.
Which they didn't tell us about.
No way we would have spent 3+ hours with them inside.
He had a PCR the day before the dinner.
Which today turned out to be positive.
He also forgot to do the agreed lft on the day.

He has no symptoms, so might all be good, but fucking hell.

I am so angry.

Words fail me at your bosses attitude!! Just gone to alert level 4 as well.

Lost track with what to do about contact with positive cases as it is changing in a couple of days. Fingers crossed for you....

Heal fast dude. There are roads out there waiting to have you ride on them.

Saw this. Hoping it's an anti-anti-vaccine operation so all the anti-vaccine people lose their jobs and bankrupt themselves on stupid court cases

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This is great news, hopefully they will open up more locations but at least I can get my booster here before travelling back to the UK next year and still have my vaccines recognised.

Just tried to book in my booster, the website is absolutely broken. Goes round in circles asking for NHS number/date of birth etc.

Here the advice is "stay the hell away from everyone you possibly can. get tested in 5 days"

Unfortunately, getting tested means standing in sub-zero temps in carparks and then crowding into a temporary testing centre once you're allowed in the doors so I have a feeling a lot of people just WfH if they can and wait to see if they have symptoms or self-test.

Drive through Covid test at the randox facility at Manchester airport at 9am yesterday. Results at 5.50am today.

I’ll be sensible before I do an LFT on Wednesday because I think if I’d caught it on the flight, it probably wouldn’t have incubated by the time of the test (about 90 mins after I landed).

Intersting, that might be the only place. That's were mine was done

confused as to how the omicron specific isolation policy will be implemented without 100% sequencing of tests

The key thing is suspected vs. confirmed omicron.

When the initial PCR test goes to the lab it will be tested for an S-gene dropout. If there is an S-gene dropout, it's probably omicron, but as Chris Witty explained on the TV the other day not all S-gene dropouts are omicron - the test has to be sequenced to know for sure.

Therefore if your PCR test picks up an S-gene dropout, you'll be told that you are a suspected test. If your test is then sequenced (I think all suspected cases will be, at least for the moment, although not sure how sustainable this is given sequencing capacity) and if omicron is found you'll be a confirmed case.

The gov. guidance says:

All individuals who have been identified as a close contact of a suspected or confirmed case of the Omicron variant of COVID-19, irrespective of vaccination status and age, will continue to be required to self-isolate and asked to book a PCR test.

So suspected cases are treated like confirmed ones until confirmed otherwise.

Sorry to hear you've got it anyway. Not that surprised that your LFTs missed it - it took a week for me to test positive with a LFT and like you I'd been merrily going about my business presuming I was alright.

However, if you're anything like me, prepare for positive LFTs for a LONG time. I'm still producing positive LFTs and I first tested positive with one on 24 September!

I'm still producing positive LFTs and I first tested positive with one on 24 September!

Woah! So you've had to isolate for all that time?

Is that a normal length of time?

Isn't the issue that only a handful of labs can check for the dropout?

Thanks for that. Got to assume mine wasn't suspected then as T&T told my partner she was free to not isolate. She's not been out much though and has since tested negative on PCR.

That's crazy, I didn't think of the results being delayed more than less sensitive overall.

Induced demand I guess!

Missus has tested positive, she was in London last week for work Xmas party. No idea if omicron we haven’t been informed but according to Tim Spector its about 50-50. Fingers crossed my booster 10 days ago will offer me some protection.

6 year old daughter positive on a lateral flow this morning, both my wife and I negative, but we have have all done PCRs this morning, so will see what they say.

Sods law we will be negative and pick it up later in the week, ruining any chance of a normal christmas...

No, you just have to isolate for the 10 days from you first positive test. I think they say you shouldn't test for 90 days once you are positive. I guess it is because it is still in your system but you are not infectious

Just looked this up:

If you have an LFD antigen test within 90 days of a previous positive COVID-19 PCR test, for example as part of a workplace or community testing programme, and the result of this test is positive, you and your household should self-isolate and follow the steps in this guidance again.

Edit: so I guess you'd be eligable for another PCR at that point which could be negative in which case no isolation

My partner has done 2 or 3 LFT over the past few days and all negative, PCR was positive.