RE: Why the delay.21 Sep 2020 11:57
MIKODX.....thank you! Finally someone else that appears to understand the logistics behind this level of mass testing. Notwithstanding the CE marking, MHRA approval and any other approval....there is still the small matter of ensuring that the infrastructure behind mass testing is robust. As MIK quite rightly states, it isn't just as easy as manufacturing millions of lateral flow tests and distributing them without any foresight into how the data is gathered and processes.
It has to be a fool proof, watertight operation because as we've seen already, the general public can't be trusted to follow simple instructions when it comes to distancing, numbers in households, quarantining, face-coverings etc. I believe this is the last shot for the UK's testing program, so it has to be effective, manageable and secure...