COVID-19 — Coronavirus

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This says it all. A private employer acquires tens of thousands of testing kits for its employees whilst the UK Govt is completely incapable of doing likewise for healthworkers. There is zero political will in the Cabinet to fight this. They just want to ride it out.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-coivid-19-test-kits-to-ensure-safety-for-all

if a private employer can acquire tests for its workers, why can't the state for the healhworkers?
 
Marvin said:
They are possibly on good terms, however I don't think the USA was on a war footing re corona until they started to see it in their cities. Now they are moving. I doubt the USA will be prepared to take defeat and stasis like the UK government. That wont be an option for them.
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Their mortality rate will completely outstrip ours.
 
Marvin said:
This says it all. A private employer acquires tens of thousands of testing kits for its employees whilst the UK Govt is completely incapable of doing likewise for healthworkers. There is zero political will in the Cabinet to fight this. They just want to ride it out.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-coivid-19-test-kits-to-ensure-safety-for-all

if a private employer can acquire tests for its workers, why can't the state for the healhworkers?
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You are 100% right about the importance of testing. I’m hoping the delay is in getting a reliable test in place, and then ramping up the numbers.
 
Marvin said:
This says it all. A private employer acquires tens of thousands of testing kits for its employees whilst the UK Govt is completely incapable of doing likewise for healthworkers. There is zero political will in the Cabinet to fight this. They just want to ride it out.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...-coivid-19-test-kits-to-ensure-safety-for-all

if a private employer can acquire tests for its workers, why can't the state for the healhworkers?
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You forgot to use the dumptheguardian link :)
 
gordondaviesmoustache said:
Does anyone on here think we should be doing more testing?
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We will be.
Accurate test kits do not grow on trees. 40k of test kits bought from China have already had to be binned because they're shit.
Our PCR active virus testing will ramp up to about 50k a day by the next week and then they intend to do the Antigen tests in very big numbers as they need to get blood donations in big numbers to inject plasma (with antigens) in to those at risk who have started to get ill to slug the death stats.
Once the peak of the current wave is past then they will start to look at mass PCR live virus testing to stop future waves in their tracks.
That's the strategy from what I've read anyway.
 
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BlueAnorak said:
We will be. Accurate test kits do not grow in trees. 40k of test kits bought from China have already had to be binned because they're shit.
Our PCR active virus testing will ramp up to about 50k a day by the end of this coming week and then they intend to do the Antigen tests in veru big numbers as they need to get blood donations in big numbers to inject plasma (with antigens) in to those at risk who have started to get ill to slug the death stats.
That's the strategy from what I've read anyway.
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Like most cheap tacky shit we import from them. They ought to concentrate on making quality test kits than knock off dodgy designer fakes
 
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