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By *hrista Bellend OP   Woman
over a year ago

surrounded by twinkly lights

Interesting GP interview on bbc news this morning about private covid-19 testing labs and that they are not timely giving updates on hot spots purely because they are overwhelmed with the quantity of tests all over the spectrum that they are completing.

Hence why the Leicester hotspot took so long to be noticed

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By *uttyjonnMan
over a year ago

SEA

Do you mean private companies supporting NHS / government testing or testing individuals paying for themselves?

I cannot imagine the volumes for private testing are significant enough to make a difference when the government are supposedly doing 200k a day

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By *uninlondon69Man
over a year ago

Tower Bridge South

The FT reported yesterday that only around 10‰ of new infections were being reported - only tests conducted in hospital. Positive tests in independent laboratories are missing from the current reported figures. Surprising it wasn't widely reported last night as it was tweeted by the FT at 2.30pm. Beth Rigby from Sky has picked up on it this morning.

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By *eddy and legsCouple
over a year ago

the wetlands


"Interesting GP interview on bbc news this morning about private covid-19 testing labs and that they are not timely giving updates on hot spots purely because they are overwhelmed with the quantity of tests all over the spectrum that they are completing.

Hence why the Leicester hotspot took so long to be noticed "

Statistics and trends take time ...

How about Boris says to Manchester, you had 50 positive cases last week and you might be going to have a spike, lockdown for 14 days just in case ?

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By *ostafunMan
over a year ago

near ipswich


"Interesting GP interview on bbc news this morning about private covid-19 testing labs and that they are not timely giving updates on hot spots purely because they are overwhelmed with the quantity of tests all over the spectrum that they are completing.

Hence why the Leicester hotspot took so long to be noticed

Statistics and trends take time ...

How about Boris says to Manchester, you had 50 positive cases last week and you might be going to have a spike, lockdown for 14 days just in case ?"
In that case you might as well keep everyone locked up until there is a cure.Lockdown was put in place to stop the NHS getting overwhelmed, you are never going to fully stamp the virus out until a vaccine is discovered and the best anyone can do is keep the numbers down.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Re private companies releasing test data,I wonder if the protection of data act stops them doing it even to the Government and nhs or they are in fear it does and may be worried about litigation from someone who feels their privacy outweighs the health of others?

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here

The reluctance by PHE to involve private labs in providing testing capacity was one of the reasons the UK was unable to scale up for mass testing at the start of the pandemic.

Now that testing capacity is being provided by a greater number of labs, including those in the private sector, it is likely the job of collating data is much more complex, hence the possible delay in having demographic information readily available quickly.

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By *uninlondon69Man
over a year ago

Tower Bridge South


"Re private companies releasing test data,I wonder if the protection of data act stops them doing it even to the Government and nhs or they are in fear it does and may be worried about litigation from someone who feels their privacy outweighs the health of others?"

The data is actually there, it's just not reported in the official figures - you have to go looking for it. See @jburnmurdoch of the FT on twitter. He has the graphs that explain it much better and a link to the FT article - no paywall on it.

The locally released figures are around 90% lower than the actuality, which is leads local areas to think they are safe and you get a spike as in Leicester.

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By *uninlondon69Man
over a year ago

Tower Bridge South

Basically Matt Hancock's team are telling you it's sunny so you go out in shorts but end up with hypothermia.

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By *eddy and legsCouple
over a year ago

the wetlands


"Basically Matt Hancock's team are telling you it's sunny so you go out in shorts but end up with hypothermia. "

Be wise you're too fkn stupid to use common sense

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By *eddy and legsCouple
over a year ago

the wetlands


"The reluctance by PHE to involve private labs in providing testing capacity was one of the reasons the UK was unable to scale up for mass testing at the start of the pandemic.

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Maybe something to do with the fact a private lab fucked up the d*unk drivers tests ? Suspected faked quality checks was it ?

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By *uninlondon69Man
over a year ago

Tower Bridge South

https://www.ft.com/content/301c847c-a317-4950-a75b-8e66933d423a

If you're in the Midlands or Humberside especially, the real picture is a lot worse than you've been told. Saturday is going to lead to a fucking mess there in a couple of weeks.

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By *heBirminghamWeekendMan
over a year ago

here


"The reluctance by PHE to involve private labs in providing testing capacity was one of the reasons the UK was unable to scale up for mass testing at the start of the pandemic.

Maybe something to do with the fact a private lab fucked up the d*unk drivers tests ? Suspected faked quality checks was it ?"

Is that the reason PHE was so precious about opening up testing outside of their own labs?

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By *uninlondon69Man
over a year ago

Tower Bridge South

John Burn-Murdoch, the journalist from the FT who broke this Pillar 2 news is about to be interviewed on LBC.

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By *uninlondon69Man
over a year ago

Tower Bridge South

Fucking hell. The reason we don't have the pillar 2 testing data is that Deloitte, who are paid to collect it are not required to pass the data on under the terms of their contract.

Is Chris Grayling involved in this somewhere?

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By *eddy and legsCouple
over a year ago

the wetlands

From experience,the UK government cannot write a binding contract.

God help our trade deals with the US and China

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By *uninlondon69Man
over a year ago

Tower Bridge South


"From experience,the UK government cannot write a binding contract.

God help our trade deals with the US and China"

Well it sounds like we're about to have a fucking big argument with China. Until Putin tells us to stop it.

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