Interesting GP interview on bbc news this morning about private covid-19 testing labs and that they are not timely giving updates on hot spots purely because they are overwhelmed with the quantity of tests all over the spectrum that they are completing.
Hence why the Leicester hotspot took so long to be noticed |
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Do you mean private companies supporting NHS / government testing or testing individuals paying for themselves?
I cannot imagine the volumes for private testing are significant enough to make a difference when the government are supposedly doing 200k a day |
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The FT reported yesterday that only around 10‰ of new infections were being reported - only tests conducted in hospital. Positive tests in independent laboratories are missing from the current reported figures. Surprising it wasn't widely reported last night as it was tweeted by the FT at 2.30pm. Beth Rigby from Sky has picked up on it this morning. |
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"Interesting GP interview on bbc news this morning about private covid-19 testing labs and that they are not timely giving updates on hot spots purely because they are overwhelmed with the quantity of tests all over the spectrum that they are completing.
Hence why the Leicester hotspot took so long to be noticed "
Statistics and trends take time ...
How about Boris says to Manchester, you had 50 positive cases last week and you might be going to have a spike, lockdown for 14 days just in case ? |
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over a year ago
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"Interesting GP interview on bbc news this morning about private covid-19 testing labs and that they are not timely giving updates on hot spots purely because they are overwhelmed with the quantity of tests all over the spectrum that they are completing.
Hence why the Leicester hotspot took so long to be noticed
Statistics and trends take time ...
How about Boris says to Manchester, you had 50 positive cases last week and you might be going to have a spike, lockdown for 14 days just in case ?"
In that case you might as well keep everyone locked up until there is a cure.Lockdown was put in place to stop the NHS getting overwhelmed, you are never going to fully stamp the virus out until a vaccine is discovered and the best anyone can do is keep the numbers down. |
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Re private companies releasing test data,I wonder if the protection of data act stops them doing it even to the Government and nhs or they are in fear it does and may be worried about litigation from someone who feels their privacy outweighs the health of others? |
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The reluctance by PHE to involve private labs in providing testing capacity was one of the reasons the UK was unable to scale up for mass testing at the start of the pandemic.
Now that testing capacity is being provided by a greater number of labs, including those in the private sector, it is likely the job of collating data is much more complex, hence the possible delay in having demographic information readily available quickly. |
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"Re private companies releasing test data,I wonder if the protection of data act stops them doing it even to the Government and nhs or they are in fear it does and may be worried about litigation from someone who feels their privacy outweighs the health of others?"
The data is actually there, it's just not reported in the official figures - you have to go looking for it. See @jburnmurdoch of the FT on twitter. He has the graphs that explain it much better and a link to the FT article - no paywall on it.
The locally released figures are around 90% lower than the actuality, which is leads local areas to think they are safe and you get a spike as in Leicester. |
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"The reluctance by PHE to involve private labs in providing testing capacity was one of the reasons the UK was unable to scale up for mass testing at the start of the pandemic.
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Maybe something to do with the fact a private lab fucked up the d*unk drivers tests ? Suspected faked quality checks was it ? |
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https://www.ft.com/content/301c847c-a317-4950-a75b-8e66933d423a
If you're in the Midlands or Humberside especially, the real picture is a lot worse than you've been told. Saturday is going to lead to a fucking mess there in a couple of weeks. |
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"The reluctance by PHE to involve private labs in providing testing capacity was one of the reasons the UK was unable to scale up for mass testing at the start of the pandemic.
Maybe something to do with the fact a private lab fucked up the d*unk drivers tests ? Suspected faked quality checks was it ?"
Is that the reason PHE was so precious about opening up testing outside of their own labs? |
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Fucking hell. The reason we don't have the pillar 2 testing data is that Deloitte, who are paid to collect it are not required to pass the data on under the terms of their contract.
Is Chris Grayling involved in this somewhere? |
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"From experience,the UK government cannot write a binding contract.
God help our trade deals with the US and China"
Well it sounds like we're about to have a fucking big argument with China. Until Putin tells us to stop it. |
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