RE: Answer19 Apr 2021 10:11
Trendz, Just looking at the UK, its a difficult question to answer because I don't know, and maybe others will put in what they think, what "mass testing" means in terms of numbers. What constitutes mass testing? 5m per week, 10m, 50m?
I think once people have to pay it will fall off dramatically, if not made obligatory.
What should stay in use I imagine, would be all hospital staff and hospital admissions. School children and teachers maybe, for a while, not sure about that one.
Airports, that's the most likely to stay for 6 months at least.
I think people on this board are far too optimistic on either the individual or companies desire to have this extra cost and likewise the govt simply will HAVE to reign back expenditure all around the economy. (The pressure on the NHS to reduce the 5m backlog of other ops is going to put covid down the list I'm afraid, if cases and deaths remain at these negligible levels.)
The thing is of course, if the test is released with such good S&S then it surely must have a huge global market and the UK specifics will all be irrelevant.