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Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by vaxx: 3:09pm On May 01, 2020 |
Landnaira5:covid pool testing is what every western country are presently doing...... |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Blindersoff: 3:21pm On May 01, 2020 |
chrisagyei: Shut up you this liar. The number of tests done in Ghana is not up to 20k. Your government lies like there is no tomorrow. I am here in Ghana and there is absolutely no house to house testing going on and those tested so far are very very low. Those over 100k acclaimed tested are false figures inflated by your government to keep them in good stead with USA their slave masters 1 Like |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Blindersoff: 3:24pm On May 01, 2020 |
rastamouse: Ghana is not testing more. Those are lies. Their death rate is high ignore their lies. They have no plan here because I live in Ghana currently. 1 Like |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by vaxx: 3:26pm On May 01, 2020 |
benji93:The fact is that, when it comes to some aspects of advance research, Ghana is far ahead of Nigeria. This is so in the area of nuclear and medical research. This is so because we in Ghana easily use our poverty status to seek external assistance . but I think Nigeria is too big for that. lol.i was surprised Nigeria can even seek IMF rapid credit now . now to the matter of pool testing, it is very sensitive; it detects even the minutest presence of the virus and amplifies it many times. Remember, that Ghana prevalence rate of Corona virus is still very low, around 2.2% of the population. same as in Nigeria as well, pool testing is ideal, fast and cost effective testing method for Corona virus. Google "Corona pool testing" for more information. You will find out that most European countries like Germany, UK, France, Italy, Spain, etc; and North American countries USA and Canada are all using the PCR pool testing method. Corona pool testing has increased worldwide testing capacities many times over. 2 Likes 1 Share |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by wizzzmike: 3:37pm On May 01, 2020 |
Blindersoff: really dude why do you envy Ghana like that. how many death in Ghana compare to Nigeria and u said currently live in Ghana wow |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Nobody: 3:51pm On May 01, 2020 |
Miracle1991: You sound like one of the illiterate cronies/relatives of the demonic political elite. So GET GONE PLEASE!!!! |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Nobody: 3:54pm On May 01, 2020 |
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Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Graysons: 4:18pm On May 01, 2020 |
Ironi:You want to cry? 2 Likes |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Legendguru: 4:29pm On May 01, 2020 |
THis is here to stay no panic |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Landnaira5: 5:21pm On May 01, 2020 |
benji93: Are you aware one is theGold standard testing procedure while the other has limitations and a higher chance of getting false negatives. Are you a scientist? I don’t think pool testing is going to flatten the curve in anyway and that’s that. You will find more positive people yes but they would have been negative if the sat the Bleep at home when they asked us to. A few people on my street tested positive in the first 2 weeks and they are monitoring some people, but I’m not scared. Why? I stayed the duck at home. If those other people didn’t go out they won’t be worried like me. Are you aware people with permits as essential workers are using their cars as taxis?? To take people around and you expect the numbers to reduce? Haq we’re not ready. My point is the virus will spread even if we start testing 10,000 a day. I think the first two weeks would have made ALL the difference if Nigerians stayed at home. But here we are now. The lockdown was not well planned. |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Oneday82: 5:27pm On May 01, 2020 |
Bullet01: My honest advice is we should be very careful. I foresee danger. The influx of people you will be seeing from Monday will shock you. Coronavirus is real, and we should strictly follow the NCDC guidelines. When you want to enter a public transport, make sure you have your sanitizer with you, once you open the door to enter, apply it immediately and make sure people in the vehicle are not more than 5 persons including the driver for car. Use your face mask. |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Blindersoff: 5:33pm On May 01, 2020 |
wizzzmike: Keep on believing the lies being released by the Ghanaian govt. You must have a knot loose in your head if you feel I envy Ghana. There is absolutely no house to house testing going on and no plan against the covid19 pandemic in Ghana. Here it is business as usual with zero social distancing. |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by benji93: 5:50pm On May 01, 2020 |
Stop the exaggeration man. In Nuclear and Medical research? I grew up in Ghana, man. . I also attended the University of Ghana for a while. So i know what research is like in Ghana. . So I am afraid that's a big lie. Ghana is not ahead of Nigeria in advanced research. Ghana doesn't even do much in advanced research. Besides you only restated my support of pool testing. You were looking for an opportunity to gloat about Ghana's involvement in advanced research. It's not as if you invented pool testing. Why are you even mentioning the western countries? I didn't have to do that to make my point. Must we apply everything that the western world applies? Encouraging the use of a method based on the fact that the western world uses it is a terrible way of convincing people-for their own good. The idea of pool testing for COVID was actually suggested recently by an institution in Isreal. It's efficiency for this virus has not actually been extensively studied. But in these trying times and for a large population such as Nigeria, that should be the way to go as it's effective. However, there's still a problem of determining how many samples should be in a pool. You have to be able to properly establish the percent of the population with the infection. you also have to factor in the number of false positives and negatives. In my opinion, you need to have tested a certain percent of a population to establish the factors earlier mentioned. I do not know if those at NCDC have tested enough people to establish these factors, neither do I know what fraction of the population is reasonable. I will have to do extensive research to determine that. I will leave that to those who have been paid to do it. My point is making theses choices are not as easy as you make it seem. vaxx: |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Swanzi(m): 6:00pm On May 01, 2020 |
Graysons: Gayson with his usual theatrics venom and comedy but behind all this smiling emoji is pain wailing and anguish... Why don’t u direct ur anger and hate towards ur illiterate born to rule Fulani oligarchs who’ve held ur country hostage and will continue to hold sway even after ur grandchildren's 1st birthday. Ur ijaw clansman Jonathan was persecuted for less of what is happening now but no u choose to hate Ghanaians and igbos who are not the reason for ur predicament thread after thread may u receive sense ok Bye bye |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by wizzzmike: 6:00pm On May 01, 2020 |
Blindersoff: dude shut up...you don't read the updates the government give so shut up and think about ur country Nigeria |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Swanzi(m): 6:11pm On May 01, 2020 |
Blindersoff: Oga calm down no one is manufacturing results here this is not gandollars Kano I understand U’ve been lied to most of ur adult life being a Nigerian so u get trust issues 1 Like |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by vaxx: 6:31pm On May 01, 2020 |
benji93:I am afraid you have lost your reality, the testing methods as we know are all western inclined scientific principle. therefore, it make more sense to redirect you to western country adopting this old techniques in availability of the individual testing. now, Google "Corona pool testing" and you will find that it's an innovative method being used in Europe (Germany, France, Italy, UK, etc) and other parts of the world (USA, Canada, Australia, etc). Corona pool testing has increased worldwide testing capacities many times over , just like I said before . It has the same detection limits as doing individual testing. Corona pool testing has the advantage of speed and being cost effective. I am sure you probably doesn't know much about Corona pool testing just like you don't know the capacity of Ghana scientific research . It's works "perfectly" well for virus with a very low prevalence rate. 2.2 percent rate is way lower. Remember, it has a very high sensitivity as well. 1 Like |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Noisyrians: 6:37pm On May 01, 2020 |
Don’t mind the ediot, Vaxx. Pettiness and stvpidity. Fuelish mudder fuggerz vaxx: 2 Likes |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Noisyrians: 6:39pm On May 01, 2020 |
You grew up in Ghana so what? Stop talking rubbish! benji93: 1 Like |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by benji93: 7:08pm On May 01, 2020 |
Yes, I am a scientist(advanced student). Not in biomedical science, though. . And I agree with your assertion that one is the standard while the other has only been a thing recently, as I suggested in a reply to someone. A trend towards the flat summit of a curve has to ultimately mean a reduction in the number of positives per test. Now, this is based on the assumption that the positives have been uniformly distributed, which may not even be the case here given that this hit us in a very short time. But we could assume that assumption holds approximately given the rate of transmissibility of the virus. In the absence of vaccination, testing is one of the ways to negate the spread of the virus, at least on the part of the government. The government cannot assume all residents will observe all the precautionary measures. As at this moment, a number of people carry the virus, and it must be spreading at a rate that is unknown. Bear in mind this rate could be accelerating. So we would first need to eliminate this acceleration if any, decelerate it, then create the circumstance of an approximately constant number of people with the virus. These can only be achieved by pulling positives out of the population or isolating them from a healthy population in this case. So adopting an accelerated mode of testing people is the way to go, if the factors of percent of the population with the virus, and the number of false positives and negatives per population among many others are established. So the reasonable thing would be to commence testing using the standard, then after a certain number of the population have been tested, we can switch to an accelerated testing method, which in this case is the pool testing method. However in the case of Nigeria, given the relatively nonchalant attitude of most with respect to the virus, it would be more reasonable to start pool testing now. And by the way, you sound like someone living outside Nigeria, living with parents, which are at least in the middle class, or at least in the middle class yourself. Do you know how an average Nigerian survives? Forcing people to sit at home isn't a reasonable way to combat the spread, especially in Nigeria. Nigeria is too sick a country economically to survive such a policy. . You may be able to survive this by sitting at home, but a lot of other people can't. The doubts about the recency of the pool testing method are reasonable though. But given our circumstances, any method for testing or treatment with about 70% accuracy is something any country should consider. Also, you added that the pool testing method has a higher chance of getting false positives. Where did you get the fact of "higher chance" from? Landnaira5: |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by benji93: 7:10pm On May 01, 2020 |
The point is pro-Ghana forces. . cannot come here and peddle incorrect information about Ghana. Especially with respect to being advanced. It's bull shit. Noisyrians: |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by baralatie(m): 7:24pm On May 01, 2020 |
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Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by benji93: 7:43pm On May 01, 2020 |
Lost my reality? I would like to first ask you, as someone else asked me. Are you a researcher? What bullshit. Detection limits of individual testing are the same as pool testing? Are you kidding me? Where did you get that information from man? It's been recommended that any region with more than 2% of its population infected does not qualify for pool testing. You are probably one of these guys that went UPS to read marketing. I don't understand why some of you guys think if someone punches holes in your arguments it must be because he doesn't know anything about it. I just told you i grew up in Ghana, and in fact I studied Biomedical Engineering at UG, and I left cos the research there was crap. I have not disputed the advantages of the use of pool testing. I have only made known the fact that it has only been recently applied to COVID, as such its efficiency is something to be concerned about. Besides pool testing may have been effective for other viruses/diseases but there's no telling how efficient it is with respect to COVID cos it's unprecedented, at least at this scale. Given the urgency of this, we can only apply whatever methods of testing and treatment that have had some success, learn, and modify our methods for better efficiency. As far as I am concerned you only have superficial information on the pool testing method, and that's alright, there are aspects of knowledge we are/were ignorant of. But if you do not have adequate information on a subject, when someone points it out go and search from reliable sources, then provide a comment. vaxx: |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by vaxx: 8:23pm On May 01, 2020 |
benji93:I can as well tell you , you are more of Williams Shakespeare student rather than a scientist as you are trying to impersonate .You don't negate an argument by just stating it, you provide explanation as well. now let me educate you, the anonymous legon drop out , what is “Pooling"" it just means that if you have for example 100 samples to be tested , you put them in pools of ten and, therefore, you test, at a time, 10 pools. So, instead of testing 10 samples, you actually test 100 samples. This is a common simple arithmetic, how is it limited to individual testing is what I am expecting you to state , not just mere twisting words together. just because Nigeria cannot do it , doesn't mean others cannot do it . it is a method that was derived in 1945 for screening samples right from the Blood Bank. For the fact that there has been a robust data collection programme, of which 98.5% of samples posted negative to the virus shows that Ghana understand this scientific techniques far better than Nigeria, no matter how you publicly disagree. Ghana contact-tracing regimen is outstanding in Africa -i mean on per capita basis. just 2.2% tested positive of the samples collected. that alone shows it is the best option. 1 Like |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by benji93: 9:49pm On May 01, 2020 |
I would advise you now to go and get some proper education. I am a published researcher man. And if I don't know what pooling means I would google it, man. Meanwhile, I dropped out of Legon to get a far better education elsewhere. It's as simple as that. And you seem to have an exaggerated sense of your knowledge. Let me reiterate again, I never opined that pool testing should not be adopted. Perhaps you should go and read my post-the first one you mentioned- again. In a follow-up comment I stated that although it's something I recommend given our population, it's better to test a percent of the population individually, extract certain factors from that activity and then commence pool testing. You make it seem as if I clearly consider pool testing inappropriate, hence the reason I suggested that you should get a better education. You really do need that education, man. Honestly, I would like to know if you even attended a university and if you did, what did you study? Cos it doesn't sound like you have adequately enlightened yourself on the subject matter. I have mentioned its limit with respect to individual testing, but since you don't necessarily read my comments, you probably passed over it-i wasn't twisting words, I was stating facts. Again, when the percent of infected persons is more than 2%, pool testing is considered inefficient. The source below indicates a case where pool testing is inefficient https://spectrum.ieee.org/view-from-the-valley/the-institute/ieee-member-news/everybody-in-the-pool-algorithm-researchers-tackle-the-coronavirus-test-shortage. I have checked NCDC's website and over 12% of the tested samples are positive, which implies that pool testing may be inappropriate. I suppose that's why they chose not to go that way. Germany, which you mentioned has an infection rate of about 6%, while South Korea has about 1.7%, so if the current infection rate was the same when they began pool testing, I would consider it relatively useful, especially in the case of South Korea. I could argue that perhaps if they had ramped up testing earlier, maybe the pool testing would have been possible, but we are where we are. Also, the number of samples you can pool together depends on the rate of infection. So if you commence testing by employing the pool testing method, you may be pooling the incorrect number of samples. Now the second source has a graph which shows that increasing the pool size increases the number of false negatives. As such if you chose the wrong number in a pool, there's a likelihood that you a pool that tested negative may contain samples from some persons with the virus. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.09944.pdf Besides, 88% of the persons that tested positive in Ghana have no travel history. That's quite alarming. Perhaps you should think about this. Please if you do not have anything useful, or you have not gotten better enlightenment do not mention me again. Good luck. vaxx: |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by Noisyrians: 10:02pm On May 01, 2020 |
Grow up. This is not funny. Th world today deals with facts not some whimsical crap. if you have facts put it out for all to see, instead of hiding behind your hatred to spew crap benji93: 1 Like |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by benji93: 10:23pm On May 01, 2020 |
How about you move on to forums created by Ghanaians? I have comments all over the place, containing facts. Perhaps you are the one that lacks the ability to find information before commenting. Nonsense. Noisyrians: |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by vaxx: 10:28pm On May 01, 2020 |
benji93:Don't be scared of knowledge. Are you aware I am better in this information you are supplying than you. you foolishly think you can used too many words to get scared off. no matter how you try to pretends. you are not a scientist. you are just an anonymous idiot . you are not even debating , you are fighting . drop your gloves . Now go back to the above link you quoted and explain to us what you foolishly understand by what you see. or I educated you again . 1 Like |
Re: Ghana Records 1,032 COVID-19 Cases — 10 Days After Lifting Lockdown by abokikhalifa: 2:51am On May 02, 2020 |
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