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Old 03-03-2021, 20:30   #3949
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Re: Coronavirus

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Originally Posted by spiderplant View Post
As I read it, they were only looking at symptomatic people. Is it that surprising that 60% were positive?
Well, yes.

The majority of NHS testing capacity is for those with symptoms booking a test and positivity never gets that high. Even when at the height of the first wave when testing was only for those with symptoms positivity never got that high.
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