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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lynda2475" data-source="post: 2321105" data-attributes="member: 19591">Yes but only if they have symptoms, not because they happen to live in the same city as someone who has tested positive for influenza.  Hospitals may test people if they have flu-like symptoms, but if you are going in for  a knee op and dont have any respiratory systems s hospital would never test you for Flu just because.And yet there are still no reports of anything other than some mild cold like symptoms in a fraction of positive tests, the rest being asymptomatic and only found because of arrival or close contact testing. Omicron has yet to cause any serious illness to warrant any concern.  Meanwhile all the people in hospital and ICU etc have Delta.All these new testing and quarantine rules in SA and Qld are because of Omicron are nonsensical given its Delta that causes actual illness.</blockquote>