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NEW: NHS England has sent a letter to all trusts saying govt has now lifted 15% cap on staff testing. Asks CEOs to make sure full capacity used everyday (this follows lag between capacity of tests and actual tests carried out) pic.twitter.com/LXsVgx13CN— Beth Rigby (@BethRigby) April 1, 2020
NEW: NHS England has sent a letter to all trusts saying govt has now lifted 15% cap on staff testing. Asks CEOs to make sure full capacity used everyday (this follows lag between capacity of tests and actual tests carried out) pic.twitter.com/LXsVgx13CN
UK is stuggling to achieve 10,000 tests per day consistently. Even if they could achieve that and all were devoted to NHS, it will be mid May before they test (500k) NHS staff. During that time they probably need to start again.
UK Government is pinning its hopes on an Antibody test that shows who has had the infection but not sufficiently badly to require hospitalisation which is the only place currently testing. The aim is to determine who already may have immunity and can return to work.
I have not seen any reference that such a test exists and has been validated as effective and reliable nor that it is been produced in the quantities required. Several behavourial experts have warned that making such a test generally available will open the door to widespread abuse by a public eager to escape confinement.
I foresee we may be heading for a USA sized disaster by relying on pseudo science and future technologies.
Sounds familiar?
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