elbows
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Coronavirus in the UK - news, lockdown and discussion
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SpineyNorman
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A much better reflection of reality though
Numbers
an ting!
Is it a case of ‘you don’t have to give us back that money we took from you’?
elbows
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The five pillars of testing implies an end to the old, limited diagnostics testing orthodoxy that has taken up so much of my discussion time here.
I'm just writing this from memory of the press conference, will post link to proper press writeups later.
1) Existing testing regime (included some lies about how every serious case that needed a test got one)
2) Commercial partnerships for new swabbing facility for NHS staff
3) Home antibody tests for people finding out of they've already had it
4) Porton Down highly accurate antibody tests on a limited scale that they will use to do the serological surveys that will give indications of what %age of population have had it.
5) Someone put in charge of this stuff.
I'm just writing this from memory of the press conference, will post link to proper press writeups later.
1) Existing testing regime (included some lies about how every serious case that needed a test got one)
2) Commercial partnerships for new swabbing facility for NHS staff
3) Home antibody tests for people finding out of they've already had it
4) Porton Down highly accurate antibody tests on a limited scale that they will use to do the serological surveys that will give indications of what %age of population have had it.
5) Someone put in charge of this stuff.
Buckaroo
Donkey piss and tractors
Sounds like an excuse for not ordering said tests.
elbows
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No, I am a huge advocate of antibody tests and have been droning on about serological surveys for ages, but I dont want tests that give too many false negatives and there has already been shown to be all manner of issues with that in this pandemic so far.
Supine
Newt Member
Yes but presumably they're paying a huge amount for ppe!
Well she's told me that she and her colleagues have spent the last ten years scrimping and saving to try to avoid increasing this debt so she's over the moon right now. 'this changes everything'
Supine
Newt Member
Was a stupid question - from the reporter. He's in charge of the covid response so of course he's going to get a feckin test.
elbows
Well-Known Member
The answer was the the CMO came up with testing rules and they include key decision makers being tested.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
they've said the important bits already. There isn't really any reason it has to go out live, not doing so gives time to check some of the 'facts' they come out with too
I disagree. They're still going with some pretty important shit.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
The BBC are fucking idiots for cutting away from the briefing, thank christ for Sky.
belboid
Exasperated, not angry.
still on bbc news24 and red button and online. Neither the bbc online update or the guardian one have written anything of note since 6, and there is whats happening in the rest of the world too.
If they actually say anything important you'll just find out fifteen minutes later.
If they actually say anything important you'll just find out fifteen minutes later.
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
No it's not, hence I switch from that to Sky News.
I'd personally prefer the national broadcaster broadcast what is a pretty fucking important presser live rather than relying on Rupert Murdoch, but hey.
Pickman's model
Starry Wisdom
Glad to see you posting
cupid_stunt
Chief seagull hater & farmerbarleymow's nemesis.
Murdoch doesn't have anything to do with Sky in the UK, and hasn't done for some time now.
Oops. But my point stands. It's pretty absurd.
He's just discussed the impact on domestic violence in this crisis which I think might be more important than news of Eddie Jones' contract renewal as england rugby coach which is currently going out on the beeb.
weltweit
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In a way it doesn't matter if his target of 100,000 daily tests isn't achieved by the end of the month because the mere fact of having such a large target means it is likely significantly larger testing will by then be available. Big hairy goals have that effect so even a failure to achieve the absolute target can still be a success if we manage to test 60,000 a day or 80,000 a day, compared to what we are doing at the moment.
elbows
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Thanks to the rubbish traditional capacity in this part of our system they've now had to roll out the phrase megalabs.
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