Coronavirus (COVID-19) Discussion Thread

[Pyro as Bill]

Barozi said:

Pyro as Bill said:

Is there much point in testing during lockdown?

The Gov was aiming for 100k tests/day (hit 122k today) for when contact tracing is rolled out.

Well the numbers are misleading since they only hit their target because they were changing counting criteria.

Apparently it's now enough to send out testing kits to people at home and other satellite locations even though none of them have been analyzed.

https://www.hsj.co.uk/quality-and-performance/revealed-how-government-changed-the-rules-to-hit-100000-tests-target/7027544.article

And yes of course it's important to keep testing during lockdown. You can still infect others in supermarkets or at your workplace.

It was still 72k without the 50k that were posted and we had 30k leftover from yesterday because tons of testing sites weren't being used or were well under capacity.

I'm not saying testing during lockdown is useless just that there's not as much need if 90% of the population are locked down and tests were only for symptomatic people and anyone showing symptoms should be self isolating anyway.