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With schools beginning to open from 1st September isn’t it time to sweep away the bureaucracy and Just Do It? As an easily applied diagnostic for COVID-19 at the POC not needing medical supervision the Avacta LFT rapid antigen test could have a major role in keeping children and staff safe by checking everyone before they enter the premises. There are now only 4 weeks to manufacture and distribute stock to 32k schools with 10m pupils.
Action now would keep the kids safe, the staff safe, their families at home safe and diminish the chances of compensatory closures of other networks to contain the spread of the desease.
It’s time for the government to say ‘Go, go, go!’.
I once sent a letter to a customer that should have ended ‘I look forward to seeing you shortly.’ Unfortunately it was sent as ‘I look forward to seeing you shorty.’ Since the recipient was indeed vertically challenged our business took a bit of a dive after that........
The respected New York Times is reporting America’s ‘forest fire’:
As the pace of the pandemic speeds up, the U.S. continues to play an outsize role, now contributing 20 percent of all new coronavirus cases worldwide — even with just 4 percent of the global population. The surges in states that reopened early show no signs of stopping, despite President Trump’s continued assertions that the virus would “fade away.”
“I think this is more like a forest fire,” one infectious disease expert said. “I think that wherever there’s wood to burn, this fire is going to burn it.”
By that measure, states like Texas, Florida and South Carolina are dealing with infernos, setting caseload records in recent days. Though the U.S. death count has been trending downward, cases are on the rise in nearly half of all states, particularly in the South, West and Midwest.
Those cases are emerging in places that previously received little attention — fraternity houses, a strip club, churches — and experts say that is likely to continue as people socialize more.
At his campaign rally in Tulsa, Okla., on Saturday, Mr. Trump said he wanted to “slow the testing down” because higher case counts stem from more tests. But experts have countered that claim, pointing to increasing rates of positive tests and hospitalizations as evidence that the virus is spreading.
On Sunday, Mr. Trump’s trade adviser, Peter Navarro, who has coordinated the U.S. medical supply chain, said the White House had started preparing for a possible second wave of the virus in the fall. But the pattern in the U.S. so far indicates that the first wave has not yet passed: After the number of new cases peaked in April and began to decline slowly, it plateaued in May and has begun to climb steadily again this month.
A global view: Other nations’ gradual reopenings have also been accompanied by upticks in new cases, sometimes prompting a return to tighter restrictions. But Brazil, which has done little to tamp down the virus, continues to stand apart: Over the weekend, it became the second country after the U.S. to record more than 50,000 deaths.
Indian hospitals begin to buckle: India is now reporting more coronavirus cases than anywhere else in the world except the United States and Brazil — and its fragile health care system is starting to fracture. Hospitals in New Delhi are overloaded, and some health care workers are afraid to treat those with the virus. Scores of people have died in the streets, in hospital lobbies or in the back of ambulances.
The kids at the Treasury are the brightest on the planet so don’t think for one minute that they haven’t already decided what happens next. The Southampton one month trial is just to vindicate their decision. There used to be an old adage about market research being like a drunk leaning on a lamppost - more for support than illumination!