Thread by @karamballes

🧵Concerns are raised around the DfE continuing with experiments to use LFD to scrap isolation when only close contacts are asked for consent.

No suprise Munro pops up to explain that actually it would be unethical not to experiment in schools.

This isn't reassuring.

Here's the thread so you can see his arguments made for continuing the trials.

https://twitter.com/apsmunro/status/1402599049744822276?s=19

Having read his reasoning, I do have some questions.

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1402990081191809025?s=19

Here is a good look at the evidence base used to justify the trials

https://twitter.com/Dr2NisreenAlwan/status/1385874813089091586?s=19

Also the trials only allow the child to go to school, otherwise they must continue to isolate so there won't be other contacts, bus drivers aren't counted as close contacts, schools regularly ask for consent across students for weekly LFTs, masks, trips etc not unfeasible at all

The more you drill into the details of DCT the more questions are raised

⬇️the details

https://twitter.com/karamballes/status/1393237625029398528?s=19

One of the truest things Cummings said was that we need to stop listening to those who keep getting it wrong and start listening to those who time has shown to be more reliable

https://twitter.com/DGBassani/status/1403087976473767938?s=19

Lot of talk tonight about FDA pulling LFDs, those LFDs aren't the ones used in these trials, we have even less data on those!

The ones the FDA are warning about are the ones schools use normally for the twice weekly testing🤦‍♂️

And football games?

https://twitter.com/dgurdasani1/status/1403071110812471304?s=19