RE: Encouraging PM speech11 May 2020 01:09
I think the antigen test is the best we have. PCR obviously the most accurate but too slow, antibody test will obviously only pick up antibodies, and they don’t appear straight away. So even, and probably, if it’s not as accurate as we would like, it’s still the best we have for a quick test. We may have to suffer a few false negatives, we can’t stay in lockdown forever, we need to be pragmatic. IMHO the R number will go above one pretty quickly after we relax the rules. We are screwed either way. The test will help a lot though.