The announcement today by @BorisJohnson that we are gearing up #COVID19 testing from 5k a day, to 10k, to 25k to 250k, and the endorsement from @uksciencechief that this could theoretically happen in weeks, was the most important #COVID2019 announcement today. Many in NHS and...
in wider scientific community see this as a shift in policy that should have come earlier. But few doubt its importance in saving lives by making social distancing more effective because more accurately targeted. And it creates possibility of an earlier return to something...
for all of us that would feel a bit more like normal life. PS equally important is even stronger optimism today than yesterday from @uksciencechief that a workable serological test is in reach, and which would give strong evidence of who has had the illness, even without...
symptoms, and who therefore has the antibodies that should deliver immunity. On my show last night @UKRI_CEO said mass serological testing could happen in months. And again this gives hope that the severe restrictions on our freedoms we are experiencing would have an end.
