NHS LFT's are rubbish19 Nov 2021 17:16
I'm at home at the moment with Covid. My wife got it first, felt bad last Friday, did a test -negative. Felt worse on Saturday, did another test - negative. Felt even worse on Sunday, test - positive!
We order PCR's for our whole household.
Monday morning do LFT on our 3 kids - negative so they go to school. Do our PCR tests on Monday night and post them off. Do another LFT on kids Tuesday morning, all negative so go to school. Wednesday no PCR results yet so another LFT, all negative. While at school PCR results come in, wife and 3 kids all positive, mine comes back 'inconclusive/ void (didn't realise that was a thing) so quick call the school and pick kids up as they have all been going to school for at least 2 days with covid. Same evening I start feeling ill (house full of covid very obvious I now have it as well) test negative. Wednesday night worse of my life, coughing guts up, fever full works, test in morning and negative??? Do new PCR, test LFT again in evening negative again!? test this morning and positive with PCR results also ariving and confirming I'm positive.
So in all our cases we had it for at least 48 hours before the LFT's picked it up. Some may say its because we were not infectious to others but me and my wife had full on symptoms (coughing a lot! Etc) so I can't belive we were not infectious to others at that point, yet still testing negative... and we wonder why cases are so high in the country?