Different to the PCR tests, the government has bought many fast result tests - 15 minutes or so. They're new, not approved for diagnosing people without symptoms and are less accurate than PCR.
1 company making its new tests is also new this year. Obviously these will cost us £millions, people will still need PCR tests to confirm whether they are infected. It's perhaps the 'Moonshot' programme the incompetent mop dreamed of.
How wisely are we spending our money? |
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I'd prefer the resources went into getting our Testing and Tracing services effective. Fast testing and very fast results. Contact tracing done quickly too, to get the infected off our streets. Furlough or full pay whilst in quarantine. |
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I suspect fast tests like those are not going to be the game changer that’s needed.
Reason being, the people who can’t follow simple guidance now, and are spreading the virus, are the sort of people who either won’t get tested or will ignore the result anyway.
Quick privately paid for tests might be useful for when you want to go and see elderly relatives for example, but I don’t think there will be widespread use (the paying £90 for a test in Boots and then catching it off someone on the bus on the way home anyway example someone else gave in another thread). |
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"Should just stick to investment in lamp and pcr tests, they turn around in an hour now at heathrow, £80 a pop
I thought the Heathrow tests weren't PCR tests. "
I don't know anything about them but lAMP requires a reader either florescent or turbidity and a fair bit of expertise although the technology may have developed since I used it, basically uses an exothermic reaction instead of a cycler. I must have read later |
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"Dunno if it's the same thing but the gmnt are saying the testing target has been met (500,000)
According to reality check its actually 292,573"
It's now got to your Liverpool testing, due to start later this week I think Lionel |
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