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Even when it comes from the head of the international quarantine organisation?

Symptom and infection variability are features of COVID - according to the scientific literature.

For example, the latest quarantine worker to test positive has a very low viral load and is unlikely to be infectious.

When are viral load and viral shedding the highest?

The temporal patterns of viral shedding vary among different infections. The consensus for COVID-19 is that the viral load and viral shedding are highest on early days of the infection, peaking on or before symptoms onset. One study estimated that 44% of transmission could occur before the first symptoms show up. Another study monitored viral shedding over the course of disease progression and found that viral shedding drops 5 days after symptoms onset and stops after day 10.

COVID-19’s temporal shedding profile is in stark contrast to SARS. Viral shedding for COVID-19 peaks much earlier, and at much higher levels. Unfortunately, heaving shedding early in infection makes it harder to contain the virus, which likely contribute to COVID-19’s rapid spread.

For a virus that is both highly transmissable, and virulent, to the point where we are quaranting at all, the fact that someone in that setting tests positive (after becoming symptomatic), and isn't highly contagious should ring some massive alarm bells as far as I am concerned.

@Thryleon‍  How come you haven't caught COVID-19, from your work description you are one step away from the deep end?

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I would appreciate having this forum to ask questions and not be on trial thankyou.

@Thryleon‍  You mentioned your workplace exposure, it's sounds comparable to the quarantine workers if not even higher risk, why not relate that experience?

Nobody's posts or communications, no matter how trivial the content, forum or medium, are entitled to be free of analysis, rebuttal or responsibility.

So given this latest AO positive test has come from nothing.

Is it safe to assume it was a false positive?

Are we at the stage where we realise that 1 positive covid case does not mean we need to send the city into lockdown? The chances of a false positive are more likely than an actual positive nowadays,

Are we jumping at shadows a bit at the moment?

Yes it's quite interesting, I read an article recently that also raised issues with the validity of the 14 day quarantine when operating rolling quarantine. People moving in or out of quarantine at different stages from the same location. The call was for quarantine in batches, but to do that effectively you need a separate isolated facility for each day of arrivals on a first in / first out basis. Is there anywhere in the world operating quarantine this way?

I did read that specific hotel floors are now being designated, the State Government is spending $M on altering ducting and airflow in these hotels, or shutting down whole floors when they share some circulation.

Especially when it comes from the head of a quarantine organisation.

Two more cases of Covid via quarantine again, interesting part is the claim it was spread by use of a nebuliser.....nebuliser's and suction are banned in Victoria and I presume the rest of Australia because of transmission risks.

Two more cases of Covid via quarantine again, interesting part is the claim it was spread by use of a nebuliser.....nebuliser's and suction are banned in Victoria and I presume the rest of Australia because of transmission risks.

Dan said there was no reason for the person not to be using it in his presser.