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Just ordered our first set of LFT for school tests.
From link: https://www.gov.uk/order-coronavirus-rapid-lateral-flow-tests
Let's see what arrives...
Daughters a primary school teacher so I have ordered.....
Can't argue about delivery speed - 7 tests arrived this morning.
However, no surprise really that NHS are sending out INNOVA for back to school tests:
https://twitter.com/OneMinuteLotto/status/1366739092084559874
Yes so I think people are going to be grumpy about them. I suspect some more bad press. I think the government will have to give a nod to new British tests that are anterior nasal and much better
Just had mine delivered, some Chinese brain tickler type test.
Won't be bothering with these then.
Man just fell through the letterbox as I was reading the board.
Mine are by a company called Avacta.
Just kidding they are innova maybe one day soon tho they will say avacta ;-)
Mine not a man fell through my letterbox ha
I thought the brain tickler ones were for professional use only and not home use?
They are yenom. However, the NHS say for home use ignore manufacturers designed usage and shove it only half way up the nose instead! FFS
You would think they wouldn't work very well then - if they are only really sensitive and accurate enough for nasopharyngeal.
craiga - hope you gave the guy a food parcel and referred him to the eating disorders clinic ;)
Deems will have a field day!
Deeks of course!
As right he should, not only do we not have very good tests but we are also not using them in the intended way. Which will make a bad test worse.
Just done first test...negative after waiting 30 minutes.
Not good with things near my tonsils so wretched numerous times, then shoved up the right nostril and span around and twizelled until my eyes watered.
Good luck doing this to kids twice a week.....
Yep hp4020 - not going to happen in this house.
Assuming we have a far superior test - I will literally fall over if Deeks backtracks... I would assume that Deeks will not have a good word to say regardless of how good they are. Strange man...
Order some more WildStar as you use them up quickly.
Just to qualify my previous comment about we won't be using Innova in this house.
I don't see the point of performing an irritating and uncomfortable test on the kids if the accuracy is severely suspect with a completely unreliable end result. Simply not worth the trauma.
A necessary evil if it could be trusted, but it can't.
Nothing but an attempt at pacifying the masses by providing an illusion of safety.
If everyone requests an Innova test all the govt will do is make another emergency order, which in turn would mean less money spent on Avacta tests. Much as I'd like to chuck them in the bin
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Innova tests. As long as you have a trained professional armed with a toffee hammer to batter the swabs in to the centre of your family’s skulls.
The “accuracy” (in low prevalence settings) and specificity for Innova tests are actually very good. You’re extremely unlikely to get a false positive, I.e. where the test says you’ve got Covid-19 but you haven’t. The only real question is over sensitivity, I.e. if you’ve got the virus, will it detect it? That could be better, but if you have a really high viral load it will probably pick it up. It can potentially do this even a day or so before you develop symptoms.
As long as you don’t relax your guard and take extra risks when you get a negative result, there is no harm in using them at all, only discomfort.
Not saying this is anyone here, but I hate to see when people compare the result to a coin toss, and/or say that they feel fine so there’s no point. It really doesn’t work like that.
I’d be inclined to use them up anyway, show the demand and willingness to participate in mass testing is there!
Correct cautious. It's a thread I was interested in a while back .it said Innova not that bad ((we better). But dont believe the hype not that bad. Ours better and homegrown but lot of rubbish spouted about LFTs not helping.
My wife had a false positive Sunday night with an innova test (Solid red line faint 2nd line) Was advised to do another if same treat as positive if negataive treat as negative.
Trust Innova like a fart after a vindaloo
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with Innova tests. As long as you have a trained professional armed with a toffee hammer to batter the swabs in to the centre of your family’s skulls.
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That hurts so much, I don't know whether I've had a frontal lobotomy or need a bottle in front of me.