The role and accuracy of testing is hotly disputed.Originally Posted by Muddy Retriever
As indeed the reason for Germany or South Korea’s death rates.
Has South Korea delayed the inevitable, or is it a population difference?
By way of comparison asthma percentage in UK and such as Spain are double that in Germany and South Korea.
Belgium does similar testing to Germany but is the worst performer.
Medics simply don’t know the answers for certain, it’s all new. Which is why I find the rhetoric from many of them so jarring.:If they all agreed we would go that way. They don’t. But they all want to criticise whatever is done with 2020 hindsight as does miket. Journalists are not helping by ignoring the problem of test validation. Numbers matter nothing, if the test is only 75 percent. Which with 20 percent assymptomatic is highly likely.
What is less in dispute is how PHE has not only rebuffed help , but has also sequestered the PCR machines from the labs ( including OHs,) that could have helped to Develop tests, so is actually hindering response.
Considering that big biotech lab has developed vaccines , monoclonals, Biologics, and routinely uses and manipulates virus genetics: and unlike most university labs, it knows how to control process and validate for regulatory approval.
PHE want sacking by leaving their star players on the touch line, The public health service needs a major restructure.
Like most public sector it is expensive, ineffective and inefficient. But I will wager it has a world class “diversity” manager, pension and holiday days per year.
But no doubt it will get a clap from the public , just as the pharma sector is given another kicking.
