Quote Originally Posted by Travs View Post
Understood... which is why i said it would "seem" to indicate that there is a margin for error there... perhaps i should have said in testing OR diagnosis. I mentioned unreliable testing as i have a distant family member who sadly passed away, who was tested negative in hospital for Corona, but the doctors said no it is definitely Corona.... it now turns out it may not have been Corona after all and a series of mistakes were made with regard to several elements of his testing/diagnosis/treatment, but i'd rather not go too far into that...

In a way that is similarly, if not more, alarming, if we are expecting unqualified members of public to report themselves as having Corona symptoms, and then asking everybody they have been in contact with to isolate themselves based on their say so...
I cannot find it now, but I can remember commenting to my partner about a report on NHS staff who were self isolating as they thought they had, or might have, Covid. When tested, only a tiny proportion actually had it, less than 20%. I know some tests have a significant false negative rate, but even so. And if you look at the overall number of tests, and the number of cases, the same applies. Most who are tested have not got it.