Care Homes Pilot14 Nov 2020 17:57
I have just watched a live interview on Sky News with a National Care Home Executive saying she is happy to accept approx 76% efficacy of a Lateral Flow Test to allow people to visit their elderly relatives. The alternative was to provide a home sample for PCR to be analysed at a lab and then confirmed one way or the other within 48 hours.
IMO, this is an utterly incomprehensible and shameful decision when NCYT have such a superior product available on both efficacy and speed that will, put as bluntly as I can state, save lives, and way beyond what will undoubtedly play out if the false negatives are allowed to run riot in the 14,000 Nationwide Care Homes that this would be rolled out into.
Please can anyone with any influence guide these misguided individuals in the right direction before another appalling play on our old, infirm and defenceless relatives is allowed to become reality.