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Here's the link again....thread and link worth reading
New Year travel could be saved as Transport Secretary urges daily testing in place of quarantine
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/24/new-year-travel-could-saved-transport-secretary-urges-daily/?WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_androidshare_AwR8MgFk7KlT
What this tells me is that the Government are not happy with the specificity of the tests they're using at the moment...they're waiting for a much better test that they know is coming along shortly
....goes to show that the first past the post isn't always the winner...these inferior tests will be dropped as soon as a much more accurate test comes along...I'd say this is what we're waiting for..for Avacta to produce THE BEST TEST!
Transport Secretary Grant Shapps cautioned regarding relaxing quarantine rules for travel...
That the "lateral flow" tests were "not quite there"
with the "specificity" required to be approved for use by the Government to side step quarantine but the technology was "improving" and companies were aiming for the New Year to reach the required standards.
Timing looks spot in for this to be us !!
New Year travel could be saved as Transport Secretary urges daily testing in place of quarantine
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/24/new-year-travel-could-saved-transport-secretary-urges-daily/?WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_androidshare_AwR8MgFk7KlT
Government set to give green light to rapid result saliva tests says Travel Minister
Travel quarantine will be replaced by testing plan before Christmas
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/11/23/travel-news-quarantine-uk-christmas-holidays-covid-tests-flights/?WT.mc_id=tmgliveapp_androidshare_AwR2G7cSQYZc
This is one of the best posts of the day...we've been saying exactly the same...Boris has just confirmed testing is the most important aspect of getting out of lockdowns ANY tests we manufacture will be needed for months to come!
OMG Profit that statement amounts to calling me a liar! I received a payment from the government of a measley £10000 pounds after they acknowledged at an independent tribunal hosted by a Professor and a panel of physicians that I was indeed vaccine damaged! They don't give money away for nothing....and my poor mother still cries to this day about allowing me to be vaccinated...I cannot believe you would put something so awful on a public forum!
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Updated info regarding testing with Lft's on Government website
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/homecare-workers-to-be-tested-weekly-for-covid-19
Interesting that the government is considering bringing out a bespoke Vaccine Damage Scheme purely for people suffering an adverse reaction to the Covid-19 vaccine rather than adding it to the already established Vaccine Damage Payment Act, which has a maximum payout of £120,000 which they themselves in the briefing papers say is derisory.
To encourage people to comply with their intention of mass Covid-19 vaccination, the government recognises that only an amount that properly reflects compensation for adverse reaction or even death will suffice!
When asked about how the government will deal with anti vaccine campaigner's their stock answer at any of the briefings have been ' we don't intend to give this any air time'!
The very fact that a bespoke scheme is to be set up is very telling...they expect there to be adverse reactions and the current scheme isn't good enough to properly compensate victims. This has to be done as the Pharmaceutical Companies have been given immunity from potential vaccine damage liability.
Now, I have to be clear about this..I'm not in any way anti vaccine ( even though I was given polio from a polio vaccine), but the research I've done on this topic is giving me sleepless nights.
I for one won't be at the front of any queue for a rushed through, not properly tried and tested Covid-19 vaccine. I just long for the day when a simple Avacta test will tell me it's safe to visit my 3 month old granddaughter who I have only seen a handful of times since she was born! Here's hoping for some excellent news in the next few days!
A must read not much more needs to be said!
https://twitter.com/MylesMcNulty/status/1328669248525361156
On holiday at the moment in the Canaries and I have to say that yesterday's idiotic drop very nearly ruined our time here so just want to say a big thank you to Alistair for the confidence inspiring tweet...I'll sleep much better tonight knowing that everything is going to plan ...Testing will be required GLOBALLY for a very long time to come...interesting that Scotland will soon require a negative Covid test before being allowed entry..won't be long before this is the norm for entry to ANY country!
Hubby and I are off to the Canaries on Tuesday and it looks like Tenerife has just passed a law saying visitors need to produce a negative Covid test before being allowed into their hotels ( makes perfect sense). Now it looks like this won't be implemented until the end of next week but just imagine...in a few weeks time our holiday provider Tui will have a stock room full of Avacta 10 minute tests...I'd be more than happy to visit their stores 48 hours before departure and take a test witnessed by a travel rep and given an 'all clear' certificate of travel. I'd get on their plane fully confident that EVERY passenger ha proved negative to COVID 19. Sadly I won't have that reassurance on Tuesday...COME ON AVACTA !
Many thanks to my lovely Hubby who sold 4% of our Avacta shares to buy me a much appreciated birthday gift! I know how much he's sacrificed to make me happy as we both have every certainty that any day now those same shares will be worth so much more....but....every man wants to make his wife happy and it's a small sacrifice to pay to have peace in the home...Alistair ...I'm with you on this one...I hope you and your family are very happy in your new home....if anyone deserves it you do!
I whole heartedly agree with your post 13th...there's only been £74 million paid out so far to around 900 people including myself...a pittance in comparison to the 3.5 billion fraudulently claimed on the furlough scheme! In the long run a programme of testing and a SAFE vaccine is the answer...I just ask that the very few who will be injured by the vaccine be dealt with fairly.
This morning I found a research document from The University of Oxford, it's a pity I can't attach this...Basically the government is so worried at the lack of uptake of any potential Covid vaccine that they've asked for research into how people might be more willing to have the jab. The recommendations are that anyone suffering an adverse reaction should be swiftly fully compensated for life changing injuries!
This is something I've campaigned about for many years and finally because of Covid it might actually happen...it even goes into how it will be funded.
This is a much needed acknowledgement that there will be some casualties of the vaccine programme as there is with any vaccine, but it also shows how worried they are that the vaccine take up will be low. As I've said before accurate testing will be the key to unlock the economy and not any rushed through, untried and tested vaccine! Come on Avacta...we want our lives back!