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And from The Times, not a 'leftie' politician.
Makes sense. Calling in those European favours while we can ...
And from The Times, not a 'leftie' politician.
And from The Times, not a 'leftie' politician.
And your point is?If they aren`t analysed then you can`t say they have it or not.
Even routine samples get rejected by the hundred on a normal day in the NHS.
Illegible request, insufficient sample, leaking tubes, contaminated tubes, barcode not attached, patient not on record..... just a few reasons.
If one tube breaks in a bag thats all the samples gone.
Temperature control is a dull basic but people make mistakes.
Then pile on volume & pressure and the reality of the shop floor is far different to that understood by the Whitehall mandarins.
And your point is?
But if the govt claims it has capacity for 375,000 tests a day why is the actual number of people being tested is closer to 62,000 a day when many people are struggling to get tested? Why are swabs being transported at the wrong temperature? Is a backlog of 185,000 swabs world beating?My point Peter Perfect is that "s**t happens".
If you are going to do 20 million tests than around 5% of them will fail in some way. That is 1 million tests.
Our routine test failure rate across all specialities is rated as Excellent at 2.4%
Inadequate is measured at 10% so my speculative 5% isn`t far out.
Shambolic, plain and simple.
But if the govt claims it has capacity for 375,000 tests a day why is the actual number of people being tested is closer to 62,000 a day when many people are struggling to get tested? Why are swabs being transported at the wrong temperature? Is a backlog of 185,000 swabs world beating?
No he didn't. The person displaying symptoms did.Kier got a test fine..... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-54148974
According to BBC News this evening tests per day are nearer 260,000, with capacity just above that figure.But if the govt claims it has capacity for 375,000 tests a day why is the actual number of people being tested is closer to 62,000 a day when many people are struggling to get tested? Why are swabs being transported at the wrong temperature? Is a backlog of 185,000 swabs world beating?
Yes I read that as well. Probably different days.According to BBC News this evening tests per day are nearer 260,000, with capacity just above that figure.
20.2 million tests processed in the UK so far.
13.4 million in Germany for comparison.
@carefreeoufc Germany are testing at airports for "high risk countries", those passengers can also be tested in the country they are leaving up to 48 hours before travel or "up to 3 days after arriving" so make what you wish of that. Easy to grab a headline of "turnaround time" from a broad brush.
Broader numbers in the system......
Patients in mechanical ventilation beds - England 15/9-101, highest since 23/7
Hospitalisations - England. 13/9-153, highest since 1/7
Patients being treated across England for Cov-19 - 878.
Now some clever folk are suggesting that we are in a Gompertz curve (you`ll have to google it!!) rather than a second wave.
Others are saying the testing is finding more BEFORE they get hospital ill.
And others are saying............. we are all doomed!
Locally Oadby & Wigston have surged up the 7 day case rate to nearly beat Oldham, its like the pools panel have gone bonkers!
Perhaps it’s not a govt backed initiative but they are doing (Lufthansa) free rests at the airport with a six hour turnaround https://www.lufthansa.com/gb/en/corona-testcenter also being conducted in other German airports too which means travellers can arrive with the results as you’ve mentioned or simply land and have a test if they’re willing to wait.