Senior staff at Department of Health have concerns that Mass Testing needs to stop ...
Great article from @JoshHalliday
Rapid Covid testing in England may be scaled back over false positives theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
Great article from @JoshHalliday
Rapid Covid testing in England may be scaled back over false positives theguardian.com/world/2021/apr…
From leaked emails ....
Ben Dyson, an executive director of strategy at the health department and one of Matt Hancock’s advisers, stressed the “fairly urgent need for decisions” on “the point at which we stop offering asymptomatic testing”.
Ben Dyson, an executive director of strategy at the health department and one of Matt Hancock’s advisers, stressed the “fairly urgent need for decisions” on “the point at which we stop offering asymptomatic testing”.
“As of today, someone who gets a positive LFD result in (say) London has at best a 25% chance of it being a true positive, but if it is a self-reported test potentially as low as 10% (on an optimistic assumption about specificity) or as low as 2% (on a more pessimistic assumption
Prof John Simpson, head of PHE’s public health advice, guidance and expertise pillar,
"We are a little concerned that this proposal does not provide the evidence needed to justify the extension of testing in the way proposed,
"We are a little concerned that this proposal does not provide the evidence needed to justify the extension of testing in the way proposed,
does not consider alternative approaches to achieving the over-arching aim (of reducing community transmission) ...... and does not provide a framework for evaluation that would make it possible to determine if the approach actually achieves what it intends"
Great that some important people are listening.
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