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Originally Posted by Carth
Wife works in Adult Social Care . . the number of (elderly) people going into hospital with non threatening illness, and subsequently later testing positive (with no symptoms) while in there is probably - IMO - skewing the data.
Did they have Covid before admission, did they catch it while in hospital, or are the tests flawed?
You decide because no bugger else can  |
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Originally Posted by nomadking
They're being admitted because of a positive test and being badly affected by it, not testing positive afterwards. |
Not always.
My elderly friend was admitted to hospital becasue her breathing had become very laboured, she is 87 and has COPD. They did a routine test for Covid-19 at her residential care home the week before and again on admission to hospital. Negative. They tested her again a week later and she is now positive.
The symptoms of Covid-19 aren't always as clear cut as we first thought and people are being admitted to hospital who have age related symptoms or preexisting condtion problems and not always because they have already had a positive test result. Luckily my friend is improving.