Reported in Sunday’s papers that Rooney was in contact with a luxury items ‘salesman’ on Thursday evening at his house and the guy had tested positive for Covid-19 and not informed Rooney. This has come to light after the game on Friday night and Rooney and his family have undertaken emergency Covid tests. The articles directly suggest it could affect us depending on the result of his test.
Sounds like it might have been a week on Thursday but even so like you say concerning if it affects us. https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/www....scare-pal-delivered-watch-tests-positive.html Hopefully all involved are well.
So what's the deal here then, if Rooney tests positive, our lads will have to self-isolate? Or would they be safe if they all test negative?
Wouldn't this just be our luck!!! We have finally got a full squad to choose from barring those injured etc. and we might have to leave out everyone who played on Friday night
Firstly, hopefully everyone is ok. I thought everyone was checked before the games anyway? If they do have to self isolate then do the fixtures have to go ahead? Maybe it's good Sarr and Caps weren't involved
The guy visited him a week before the game, I thought teams were testing daily or at least checking players temps.
What was the 'luxury item'? Is it just a luxury item or do the inverted commas mean it's a nudge nudge wink wink say no more say no more luxury item?
Unless the clubs all pay for it themselves. There was the league cup game where the premier league team paid for the other sides tests prior to the match before they mingled with the low life bottom feeders. I can well imagine a case where 20 players at one club all get it together at once because of the lack of testing.
It was a friend of his bringing him a watch. The friend had been contacted by track and trace, and should have been self-isolating but wasn’t. The person since tested positive. This only becomes an issue involving us should Rooney now test positive. If he doesn't, it’s panic over. He should receive his results shortly. Even if he is positive, I’d think it fairly unlikely our players are affected, having only has very occasional close contact with him in an outdoor environment.
You would hope/expect that Derby or Rooney would foot the bill if we have to seek emergency Covid tests because of him and the company he keeps. Unlikely mind you.
The official government rule is: if you have been identified as being in close contact with a person testing positive, you need to do the isolation thing. Of rooney tests positive then that will impact on anyone in close contact with him. If he tests negative then there is no ongoing impact. Of course, the PCA test has thrown up so many false positives it makes the whole thing ridiculous anyway.
I assume they won’t pospone if we have players that are positive , we will just need to field youngsters
Early results 'suggest' that it's much faster than other test, can be applied to multiple samples and it's sensitivity is not that much different to the 'gold-standard' of time/labour intensive (kerchingggg) PCR?
Oh yes, thanks for elaborately highlighting the typo for PCR. I also typed ‘of’ instead of ‘if’, but i guess you can’t catch them all
So you weren't throwing shade at PCA but PCR? The PCR techniques which are the gold-standard for testing/identification of genetic material? Please feel free to elaborate.
You know what, I apologise. This is a football forum and should stick to that. I stand by my statement (for PCR false positives), because the although the test itself is ‘gold standard’ the methods and techniques of extracting RNA is generally inadequate and that’s why there are high numbers false positives reported. But I’ll leave it there.m; I’d imagine people are COVID bored.
Rooney doesn't have it according to the man himself. Although I'm not convinced he knows the difference between the words positive and negative so we should be wary.
Rooney's results have come back negative, which coincidently mirrored Derby's negative result on Friday!! No issue for Watford players now then.
It will have been a private test paid for by the club, and it's pretty useful for both them and all the other clubs to know whether he actually has it or not, so it would have been a bit lax not to test him in the circumstances. The guy visited his house on Thursday, so four days ago - seems well within the standard/appropriate time for it to show up.
If Rooney later tests positive our entire team could have to isolate which would be an excellent chance to practice some squad rotation.