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Originally Posted by landhusweg
Hi Everybody,
As a sort of "Outsider looking on the Inside", does anybody know the reason for Covid 19 spreading so much in the North West i.e. Hyndburn, Blackburn, Burnley, Preston etc.
Abroad I watch the news from the BBC and Sky, but until now I've never heard the reason for this pandemic being so high in the above mentioned regions.
Cheers and take care
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I think that one of the problems is that the powers that be count positive swab tests as 'a case'...now if a clinician got a positive result of some test, but the patient had NO symptoms, then they would not count it as 'a case'.
They have been doing a lot of testing in the North West....Burnley,
Pendle, etc.....now if you do more tests it stands to reason that you will have more positive results.....that might be one of the reasons.....another might be due to the fact that the PCR test relies on the amplification of the DNA/RNA in each sample....this means that at a certain amplification all swabs will return a positive result....the other thing about the PCR test is that it is not specific to the genetic material of Covid 19, it picks up the genetic leavings on any other virus that you might have had in the last twelve months.
Now does that make sense for closing the country down and ruining the economy?