Interesting outside perspective: The top German virologist behind its testing success, last week deployed example of ONS English excess death stats to persuade Germans: “We were spared this primarily thru early and widespread diagnostics”... urged Germany not to lose advantage...
Having discovered SARS, and invented a test for Covid in January, clearly knows what he’s talking about...
V interesting Guardian interview:
- Says UK testing implemented “a little bit too late”
- but UK was in position to test “very early on - we worked with them to make test”
V interesting Guardian interview:
- Says UK testing implemented “a little bit too late”
- but UK was in position to test “very early on - we worked with them to make test”
- but he then, rather interestingly rollout of test in Germany was fast because of market forces - ie not centrally directed as in our health system...
- but then (last week) UK gaining momentum, and might now be better coordinated than German tests... theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
- but then (last week) UK gaining momentum, and might now be better coordinated than German tests... theguardian.com/world/2020/apr…
Elaborates on this early German testing point giving them an extra month’s headstart in his podcast - google translate of a transcript here translate.google.co.uk/translate?sl=a…
Describes testing developed in private & university labs, spreading to commercial labs very organically & quickly:
Describes testing developed in private & university labs, spreading to commercial labs very organically & quickly:
podcast website is brilliant - you can see that having successfully and incredibly for a country that open, with so many commercial connections to China, and large population, kept disease contained... that v success now leading to people saying its just flu & lift lockdown etc..
Keeps on making this point - by having early mass testing “we did not have the first deaths as an indicator, but the first proven diagnoses”...
