Test, test, test was once the Covid mantra. But not any more. What are the implications?
Test, test, test - the World Health Organization famously recommended at the start of the pandemic.
The only exceptions are social care staff and those deemed at-risk. The latter group has yet to be defined, but is likely only to include those people who are eligible for antiviral treatments that need to be given early on to try to prevent hospitalisation. Would it be better invested elsewhere? The truth is we do not know as no cost-benefit analysis has been done to assess the merits of mass testing.
Testing is also important to look at what sort of variants are circulating - and that requires the PCR tests that are processed in a lab. But that can be done via the ONS survey and those who are tested in hospital. That is how we keep track of the strains of flu circulating.
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