Colour me shocked.
Sky News has learned that 4% of swab tests conducted at the Lighthouse Laboratory in Milton Keynes are declared "unclear" because of limitations in the chemical testing process.
Exactly how many? What about the other labs?
Swabs? apple.news/ALcD0sTxBRyiwa…
Sky News has learned that 4% of swab tests conducted at the Lighthouse Laboratory in Milton Keynes are declared "unclear" because of limitations in the chemical testing process.
Exactly how many? What about the other labs?
Swabs? apple.news/ALcD0sTxBRyiwa…
Tests can also fail to produce a clear result if they are not administered correctly, if there is a delay transporting them to the laboratory, or if there are problems with labelling, barcoding or packaging.
How many are self administered swabs?
How many are self administered swabs?
What about performance with other labs?
Other centres where swabs are done by professionals?
So when it is unclear you get a text telling you to isolate and do another test. 16 days later here⬇️
All the time the clock is ticking, likely last the test infection window.
Other centres where swabs are done by professionals?
So when it is unclear you get a text telling you to isolate and do another test. 16 days later here⬇️
All the time the clock is ticking, likely last the test infection window.
2 weeks for this woman, by which time she had been admitted to hospital, 12 days symptomatic, likely past the optimal test window.
11 days later for another person working in A&E.
I’m not interested in @DHSCgovuk “confidence”.
I’m interested in the objective data.
11 days later for another person working in A&E.
I’m not interested in @DHSCgovuk “confidence”.
I’m interested in the objective data.
How many swabs sent to each lab every day are self administered?
Yes. That includes the ones in car parks where people are handed kits through the car window to do themselves?
How many positives, negatives and unclears. By centre, Lab, Age, sex, ethnicity and occupation.
Yes. That includes the ones in car parks where people are handed kits through the car window to do themselves?
How many positives, negatives and unclears. By centre, Lab, Age, sex, ethnicity and occupation.
What are the timescales from time of first request to a completed and notified positive or negative result?
Longest date etc.
How many delays are administrative?
How many due to lab backlogs?
If differences between Labs, why?
Longest date etc.
How many delays are administrative?
How many due to lab backlogs?
If differences between Labs, why?
It’s not known how many tests in total are inconclusive, but Johnson has promised to increase testing capacity across the testing network to 200k a day by the end of the month. (Ha!)
@ 4% This WOULD mean at least 8k tests a day could potentially be unclear, or 56,000 a week.
@ 4% This WOULD mean at least 8k tests a day could potentially be unclear, or 56,000 a week.
Of course we now know for sure that when they count “tests” they count saliva and nasopharyngeal swabs from the same person as two tests...and two people (350k apparently).
A test kit in the post counted as a test
A serology test with no result counted as a test
A test kit in the post counted as a test
A serology test with no result counted as a test
No doubt a retest of an unclear is also counted as another test and probably another person ..because it is all about numbers theatre.
They are taking the piss.
They are taking the piss.
