covid 19 home testing

ceres said:
Fergus Walsh did a piece for Newscast last night explaining the various tests and availability. There's currently no approved antibody test. Several are being evaluated, some have failed. A company in Northern Ireland provided him with a sample antibody test that they're offering to the government to show how it works. Fingerprick, two drops of blood into a plastic tray, add drop of reagent, wait 10 minutes. He did it on air and was surprised to get two lines which signifies a positive antibody response. He said he hadn't had the 'classic' symptoms. About two weeks ago when he was working 15 hour days, he became very tired and wasn't sleeping well. That's the extent of the symptoms he could recall. But the test may not be accurate.

ETA: the antibody test is ideally done 28 days after an infection.
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A demonstration of the "test" on a single person, when you don't actually know if they have been infected and therefore don't know what the "right" result should be, is completely useless.

The presenter and producer of this show are idiots.
 
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ceres said:
Fergus Walsh did a piece for Newscast last night explaining the various tests and availability. There's currently no approved antibody test. Several are being evaluated, some have failed. A company in Northern Ireland provided him with a sample antibody test that they're offering to the government to show how it works. Fingerprick, two drops of blood into a plastic tray, add drop of reagent, wait 10 minutes. He did it on air and was surprised to get two lines which signifies a positive antibody response. He said he hadn't had the 'classic' symptoms. About two weeks ago when he was working 15 hour days, he became very tired and wasn't sleeping well. That's the extent of the symptoms he could recall. But the test may not be accurate.

ETA: the antibody test is ideally done 28 days after an infection.
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A demonstration of the "test" on a single person, when you don't actually know if they have been infected and therefore don't know what the "right" result should be, is completely useless and misleading.
 
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motorbiking said:
Hanse 37 in the UK and a Oceanis 38.1 in Greece. But the Oceanis is on a 4 year charter contract. I get minimum 8 weeks a year.
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Nice, I had a sabre 27 for a few years then a Westerly Griffon for about 12 years. Had a few years sailing out of Poole, then ten years near Portmadoc in North Wales, beautiful sailing grounds there and ideal for hops across to IOM and Ireland, then we sailed her down to Cornwall having moved here, after two years we only managed one trip to the Scillies so we let her go, that was a sad day.
 
SirGalahad said:
When did you get into sailing?

Is the main appeal - freedom?
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My dad built a mirror dingy. so I started there, tried windsurfing, got in to bigger boats from doing flotillas, then got in to club racing in the UK.

In terms of appeal - I love the idea of harnessing the wind to travel. The only downside is when its rough.
 
durhamplumber said:
Is it your boat?I prefer cruising/ocean crossing etc...Unique way of life.
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The wife has done a lot of ocean sailing. I don't really enjoy anything more than a couple of days away from land. Lack of sleep, watch rotation, 20M waves :D not my thing. 100 miles a hop, is more my cup of tea. club racing is very friendly, nobody shouts "water" and we don't wear matching gear. I sail (or did sail) all year round. I love winter sailing in the UK, you can get some great winter sun.
 
Part of a 5 pillar plan is 100,000 tests a day by the end of the month. ;) It has pillars rather than points so must be more effective.

Evasion on the virus test so most are likely to be immunity tests and Amazon figures - deliver them probably. Another consortium. Porton Down are also going to do some more precise testing. Think a 1000 a day (soon) was mentioned for that but yesterday brief only provided a few seconds of useful info so my ears kept turning off. Maybe Porton are being used to validate results from the testers. They may have 3.5million of them from various comments maybe from different makers as 1 m from china was mentioned by a reporter asking questions in one of the briefs.

New viral tester as well that is much quicker. £20k a piece. One hospital has a number of them. They were developed mostly for use in Africa and have been adapted for CV. They also use different reagents.
 
empip said:
Published Mar24/20.
https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/how-coronavirus-tests-actually-work/

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motorbiking said:
My dad built a mirror dingy. so I started there, tried windsurfing, got in to bigger boats from doing flotillas, then got in to club racing in the UK.

In terms of appeal - I love the idea of harnessing the wind to travel. The only downside is when its rough.
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I used to have a 42footer at chichester. Bloody nice boat.

Flipped through lasers etc but found my vocation windsurfing and stuck with kite boarding today love it.
 
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