One last time5 Apr 2021 01:09
Delivering mass testing on the scale and level of ambition set by the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, will probably require “testing technology that currently does not exist,” say leaked documents revealed by The BMJ.1
The Operation Moonshot plans, which could see the government spend over £100bn to ensure 10 million covid-19 tests a day, show it’s likely that new testing technology would need to be developed, validated, procured, and made operational within months to meet the early 2021 deadline.
Jon Deeks, professor of biostatistics at the University of Birmingham and leader of the Cochrane Collaboration’s covid-19 test evaluation activities, has described the plan as a “nice dream.”
He told The BMJ, “This is not the way we should be tackling something when people are dying right now: thinking about things we have not got. We should be thinking about the things we have got and we know work. Backing a horse that hasn’t yet been born is a really bad strategy.”
https://www.bmj.com/content/370/bmj.m3585
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