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Wrong again! All the OTHER questions due for answer today have need answered, but not the LFT ones.

Oops, just realised that the answer boxes have been ticked. Not sure if that happened while I was posting, but I’m now off to read the responses.

Why thank you LittleGiddings. I note that as of now, there are no published answers. I’m not sure how rigorously deadlines are adhered to in parliament at the moment, but presumably there’s should be something to see on this site before or after midnight.
https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions?
Answered=Any&AnsweredFrom=&AnsweredTo=&DateFrom=11%2F05%2F2021&DateTo=31%2F07%2F2022&Expanded=True&House=Bicameral&MemberId=1565&SearchTerm=&Page=3

But how does this approach help us against the new variant that can escape the vaccine but is transmitted by a non-symptomatic twice vaccinated carrier? Sounds unlikely at present, but perfectly plausible when international travel resumes.

Well I did when you posted the clip of Macron being slapped in the face. In fact, I’ve got it repeat playing on a loop. Odious little turd. (Macron that is.)

But look what’s happened to NSCI’s SP in just two days after entering an exclusive licensing agreement with a global biopharmaceutical company (AstraZeneca). With all the interest in our IP, there are rich pickings still to come here.

He had it coming! LOL

I missed out the key part:

“Test and Trace has an allocated budget of £37 billion over two financial years (it may not spend all of this).”

No kidding, the speculation is mounting.

Harding came to public attention in May 2020, when the PM appointed her to lead the government’s Test and Trace programme. Boris Johnson promised that this service would be ‘world-beating’ by 1 June, but in reality, Test and Trace’s performance, particularly at contact tracing, was very poor for a long time.

In late September 2020, the Scientific Advisory Group on Emergencies found that Test and Trace was having only a ‘marginal impact’ on stopping Covid-19 transmission. In December 2020, the National Audit Office also found that ‘issues with implementation and potentially the initial choice of delivery model mean that it is not yet achieving all its objectives.’

And in March 2021, the Commons Public Accounts Committee concluded that while Test and Trace clearly had to be set up and staffed at incredible speed, there is still no clear evidence of the programme’s overall effectiveness; and it’s not clear whether its contribution to reducing infection levels can justify its ‘unimaginable’ costs.

According to the Sunday Times, Baroness Harding is considering applying for Stevens’ old job. And she conducted a long and punchy interview on BBC Woman’s Hour today, defending her record over Test and Trace.
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/could-dido-harding-end-up-running-the-nhs-

Perhaps this is another reason why AS is going down the EU approval route - to keep the GLP off their backs. That BBN post on ABDX is worth a read by all here. We are all aware that Covid has become politicised but some people (Jo Maugham) are self-serving beyond belief.

Strange how nobody has seen fit to interrogate him on the contracts awarded to - and the correct provenance of - Innova.

Instead, they are scandal mongering about the sovereign test before its even launched!

Philip Davies has the following questions lined up for Matt Han**** due for answer today!

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what steps his Department is taking to ensure that the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium's tendering process for contracts for rapid covid-19 tests is equitable and competitive.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether his Department has entered into any contracts for the provision of rapid covid-19 tests with organisations that are not members of the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, how much funding has been allocated to the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium (a) centrally and (b) to each of its members.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, if he will publish the membership of the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium; and on what date each Member was admitted to that consortium.

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, what the purpose is of the UK Rapid Antigen Test Consortium; and on what date that consortium was founded.

https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions?Answered=Any&AnsweredFrom=&AnsweredTo=&DateFrom=11%2F05%2F2021&DateTo=31%2F07%2F2022&Expanded=True&House=Bicameral&MemberId=1565&SearchTerm=&Page=3

Rocquet, “we need to be able to transport samples and test against them!”

I think we are currently doing that via the red list arrivals terminal at Heathrow

Seems Han**** is being asked some searching questions about ODX contracts which are due to be answered today. This could flush out some interesting info.
https://twitter.com/martinwillock/status/1401961421332746243?s=21

Totally agree Energyshares, but that would require some thinking outside the Petri dish...not sure that is a speciality of public sector scientists.

Another ODX RNS. We should do well today!

Thanks both, I will bookmark a link to the Citizen. Looks like an intriguing publication anyway:

“The Speaker of the National Assembly, Job Ndugai has on Monday warned MPs to desist from introducing other peoples wives and husbands as their own in parliament.” !!!

“This follows recent work at PHE Porton Down to support the development of this protocol which found there to be no discernible difference in performance when using frozen samples.”

No discernible difference in performance ...of what? If the fact that the samples are frozen causes a change to the physiology of the Coronavirus such that it can no longer be detected by a diagnostic tool that can detect it when samples are not frozen, then that has hampered performance.

Are they saying that there’s no difference in performance for other tests that target the nucleus rather than the spike? I think we should be told what is actually meant by this PD finding.

Down 11% if anyone has any spare cash (wish I did).
Dyor

Anyone know how to contact Lord Seb Coe? Avacta could save the Japan Olympics - and that would be a great story.