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“A person is smart. People are dumb, panicky dangerous animals and you know it.” Kay - Men in Black!
Always stuck with me as it’s so true
Temuchin, the q16/32’s would, I dare say, were initially intended for laboratory use by specially trained personnel who would have no doubt with some small investment of time taken to it over the other systems they were used to. NCYT have however been hand holding the NHS in their use so that this previous high end knowledge was not needed (many roles across country were created for this purpose). As for use in laboratory, the technology has been trialled (such as in carehomes) to see if it could be used outside them. The fact that we got an NHS contract at all shows that they could be.
All IMHO and thought process in how the q16/32 platforms have gone from needing labs with highly trained PCR specialists. To “near patient” with newly trained users.
They are taking it too far. The guy has clearly dropped a wobbler and tried to rectify it as best he can. This new story was a worst going to be a small blip on the accent.
I appreciate they have money in this, like most of us, but they have got the outcome they wanted and he would be better going into radio silence. IMHO
Just throwing my two pennies worth in. Not sure if others have to come to the same conclusion (Not read all posts) but I don’t think it’s an extension. For some reason these things pop up on bid stats multiple times from looking at them in the past for NCYT and others.
I hope I’m wrong. Regardless I think it is just a matter of time. As with a carehomes contract... just need to be patient.
Just my opinion.
9inch how can you say testing hasn’t reduced? Can you compare to an alternate reality where testing wasn’t done? Things could have been far worse. Plus testing still hasn’t got up to the levels required as we do t have enough of them, yet...
Plus a 5% false negative on only high viral loads likely to lead to a potential travesty with people thinking they are negative letting who aren’t not taking appropriate measures as they think they are safe. Particularly in high risk areas (hospitals and care homes).
Antigen LFT’s have their place. If you get a positive result - self isolate (whether correct or not is immaterial it protects people). With a negative test you still need to have a PCR test as you can’t afford for people running around spreading the virus.
As for home testing the LFT antigen year result is open to abuse (I.e. “I’ll get my brother/sister/wife/husband etc. to do this test and say it’s me as I feel a bit under the weather and I don’t want to self isolate”). It just won’t work in practice. Antibody tests would be fine on a self test as there isn’t any thing to be gained by the result either way.