Here's the thing, REACT uses the PCR test.
REACT tests those not going in to the hospital system, so is entirely made up of people not suffering any COVID symptoms.
The PCR test has a largely accepted minimum false positive rate of 0.8% - and that is as a minimum. Some assessments put it as high as 4% - and measures taken as a result of it have been kicked out of court in Portugal this last week.
REACT completed 105,123 swab results according to this interim report.
If 0 were to have Covid, that would mean they would get 841 positive results from that sample size.
They got 821.
I struggle to take this study seriously. It is just another statistical mirage that is keeping us trapped in a Penrose Stairs loop.
However, one thing REACT does is confirm what I and others have been saying. It can't break it down in a detailed way like the ONS data because it doesn't have those daily updates, they are monthly, with fortnightly interim reports which make it much more difficult to track the change of direction and pin it down to a particular week.
