Sir Muir Grey, who set up the National Screening Committee to sort out the very serious errors arising from the original cervical screening programme has plenty to say about Ooerafiin Moonshot.
It isn’t good.
It isn’t good.
https://twitter.com/jolyonmaugham/status/1329497476877996033
He calls for “an immediate pause” to this mass Covid screening of the symptomless, until it’s scrutinised by the National Screening Committee.”
Yes. Staggeringly. The National Screening Committee with decades of experience have not been consulted at all.
Yes. Staggeringly. The National Screening Committee with decades of experience have not been consulted at all.
A negative test may wrongly feel like a route to freedom, but that’s “premature”, he warns, without improving “the woeful performance of the ‘find, test, trace and isolate’ system”.
False negative rate is between 1 in 2 and 1 in 4 when used in the community. Ie positives missed
False negative rate is between 1 in 2 and 1 in 4 when used in the community. Ie positives missed
False positives (ie you are not infected but told that you are) mean that people are forced to isolate pointlessly putting at risk jobs.
He says
“Focus first on those with symptoms among those groups most at risk, with good compensation for those told to isolate.”
He says
“Focus first on those with symptoms among those groups most at risk, with good compensation for those told to isolate.”
How much would we have saved if we had gone all out and reserved large scale isolation facilities (inc hotels) right at the beginning. As did so many successful East Asian countries..and NZ & Oz for incomers?
Meanwhile..
Meanwhile..
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