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#channel4 Science #COVID

A great relief to hear Sir Paul Nurse talking about the necessity of integrated IT platforms to support testing.

It isn’t getting “a” test. It is about have the large and sophisticated information and logistics systems in place.
Also #Channel4 #Covid19UK Science talking about the necessity to staged and carefully measured release of lockdown. One step. Wait. Measure consequence.

Sir Paul Nurse ALSO making it clear that we do not know a lot. We will probably make mistakes.

Trust is very important.
Contact tracing.

Not realistic to do indescrimiate population testing. NO “I want a test and I am going to have one”.

Tracing needs to be from those identified with CV.

Scientists talking about not knowing how virulent this virus is. Sure.
We don’t- but the context from at least one scientists was to suggest maybe it isn’t worth the cost of testing and tracing.

I would like to ask her how many deaths makes it worth it in her view.

It seems probable that we have c 40k excess deaths in 6 weeks

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