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in reply to @Greenbank

Irrespective of the politics and other limitations, if you're blowing positive on a LFD then there's a very good chance that you've got a high enough viral load for you to be actively infectious. Just because you first tested positive 10 days ago doesn't really change this. Allowing people to go out into the world when they are still blowing positive on an LFD 10 days later is quite bonkers in my opinion.

Source? I've not seen any evidence for that being the case, but have seen reports saying it's not, and the link between being contagious and having viral load is unknown (if there is one). The reason people have previously been asked to isolate for a period of time, rather than until a negative test result, is because the likelihood of being contagious drops significantly with time regardless of positive tests which can last longer.

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The official usage scenario for LFTs in the UK is to catch asymptomatic infections, while you are in the most contagious phase. That scope has crept to the point that people are using them for symptomatic Covid.

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2021/oct/lateral-flow-tests-detect-most-people-risk-transmitting-covid-19

“It is most likely that if someone’s LFT is negative but their PCR is positive then this is because they are not at peak transmissible stage.”

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in reply to @Stonehedge

I have no idea why you've posted this @ me.

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