Antibody Testing3 Jun 2020 16:41
Been hearing a lot of stuff on Twitter about a second wave not coming therefore COVID plays are dead. It's simply untrue, and I want to explain why these companies are not dead if there's no second wave. I work for an F1 team in the UK. We have a policy for the next 12/18 months where we must take regular COVID tests to enter the workplace to ensure our factory doesn't shutdown again (otherwise no upgrades will get to the cars). This means that, for my (small) team alone, we will need 400 tests/week. Similar policies are in place elsewhere, meaning the F1 workforce in the UK will need around 4000 tests/week. This doesn't include officials for races, purely for engineers. What am I getting at here? These are measures to PREVENT spikes in the virus, even if none of the employees have got it. The same will be happening all over the UK and across the world. Businesses and the economy overall cannot survive a second wave, therefore preventing it is of the highest priority. Thus, the threat of a second wave alone is enough to ensure COVID tests will be sold for a while to come.
I think ORPH’s decision to concentrate on big companies is a very shrewd move.
Above message taken from Twitter.