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BREAKING: French woman on Koh Samui tests positive for COVID-19


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5 minutes ago, 4MyEgo said:

any dead cells from past viruses would flag a positive result

How long do you think an immune system (that's working well enough to deal with Covid in short order) leaves dead cells floating about?

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Just now, ourmanflint said:

because testing is mostly or solely done on those in quarantine, it is only finding positive case of those in quarantine, when it could easily be out in the general population.

This sounds plausible...

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6 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

 

not correct. The test is specific to COVID-19. False positives are very rare (but false negatives fairly common). And when someone tests positiev a second test is immediately done to conifrm. Odds of 2 sequential false positives are miniscule.

 

Now PCR can indeed pick up dead cells from prior COVID-19 infection, but as she is symptomatic that is not likely to be the case here.

 

could her symptoms come from another infection, not COVID ?

 

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6 minutes ago, ourmanflint said:

Unlike anywhere else in the world, Thailand covid cases seem to be much longer than the usual 4-5 days. So something does not add up, either testing is faulty *or* people are catching it inside Thailand, and because testing is mostly or solely done on those in quarantine, it is only finding positive case of those in quarantine, when it could easily be out in the general population.

Long Covid

 

https://www.bbc.com/news/health-54622059

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Just now, Sheryl said:

Not likely if she tested positive for COVID on 2 sequential tests.

 

They would nto be eager to announce this as COVID. It must be clear that it is.

 

The big question of course is where/how  she contacted it.

 

I mean, symptoms from an unrelated infection while tests detected a recent but cleared COVID infection

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3 minutes ago, tgw said:

 

I mean, symptoms from an unrelated infection while tests detected a recent but cleared COVID infection

Highly unlikely given that she tested negative at least 3 times in the prior 3 weeks.

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7 minutes ago, Sheryl said:

Not likely if she tested positive for COVID on 2 sequential tests.

 

They would nto be eager to announce this as COVID. It must be clear that it is.

 

The big question of course is where/how  she contacted it.

 

 

The Quarantine Procedure means that you are in the same group of people at the same location? or are there new arrivals coming during that 14 day period who can infect those who are about to leave? 

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10 minutes ago, Jack Mountain said:

The Quarantine Procedure means that you are in the same group of people at the same location? or are there new arrivals coming during that 14 day period who can infect those who are about to leave? 

exactly, someone infected could have arrived just before she left, I don't believe they are in groups in ASQ

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13 minutes ago, bkk_bwana said:

 

Thailand is a nation of hypochondriacs and gossips. If there were cases, symptoms, hospitalisations, or deaths, you would hear about it.

The same way we're given the accurate figures for Thai road deaths??

 

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