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One of the big issues that keeps coming up in Britain is
testing folk for Covid-19. The government seem to be missing
their own goals on testing people and as a result then get quite a lot of hassle
from the media. As far as I can tell this is to some degree the government’s
own fault. Had they early on said there were going to be problems in testing large
numbers of people, in particular front line health workers such as nurses and
doctors them maybe they would be under less pressure. I think they failed to realise that the worldwide
demand for tests was so high that they suddenly found themselves at the back of
the queue. They also said they were hoping to have a test to show who had built
up antibody immunity and have paid for three million tests. It was to be the
way to get everyone back to work quickly. The problem though is that this test
has turned out to be unreliable when it itself was tested. So it sort of
scuppered the government’s plans forcing them to fall back on the same test as
used by the vast majority of the rest of the world.
Anyway the result of all this is the number of tests on people
to see if they have Covid-19 in the UK is low compared to many other countries.
And it appears that the countries that manage to undertake high levels of
testing are also the ones that have the lowest numbers of Covid-19 cases and in
turn lower numbers of deaths. It has been speculated by some that the UK’s
number of deaths could possibly end up the highest in Europe. If this proves to
be true then it may well be the government who will be blamed by both the media
and public . . . . . We will see.
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