Testing & this government

[Laughing]

Again, you're mentioning cases with no context. How many of those positive tests convert into people requiring treatment? Is the NHS able to cope with and treat those requiring hospitalisation? Just saying we have rising cases is meaningless. It is like saying we are now at half the number daily cases of the peak in March/April when in reality we were only detecting a fraction of the number of cases back then and now we have vastly increased testing capacity. It is pointless comparing these figures yet the media still do.

I added some context. You are right you can't directly compare now v then without knowing how many were tested. Bear explains the situation better than I but there is plenty of context if you look for it.

 

[Billy Horner]

There are plenty of things I disagree with Heneghan about and have said so on this forum.

However, I think he makes some very interesting and sensible points around testing (particularly in schools), the details of PCR testing, and false positive rates.

I do think that Heneghan does make one salient point in that article (amongst a heap of conjecture).

It is highly predictable that when schools reopen in September and when people begin to spend more time indoors, the number of respiratory infections in the country increases significantly. There is a wealth of evidence from previous years of this exact phenomenon.

That it why it is so incredulous for this government to blame the recent testing problems on an unexpected spike in demand. Not only was it entirely predictable, but is actually a direct consequence of government policy to reopen schools and try to get the economy going again.

 

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[Expat Smoggie]

I don’t understand why you can’t get a test in the UK — surely there’s something amiss? Here in California free tests are available literally at every Pharmacy— ok the jury is still out on how accurate they really are but still months have gone by and the test kits have (supposedly) gotten more available (globally) and more accurate.

 

[FartingGnome]

I don’t understand why you can’t get a test in the UK — surely there’s something amiss? Here in California free tests are available literally at every Pharmacy— ok the jury is still out on how accurate they really are but still months have gone by and the test kits have (supposedly) gotten more available (globally) and more accurate.

Look at who we've got in charge of the whole schitschow, look at his past form in both public and private life, and you'll understand.