UK's Home Testing For Detecting COVID-19 is Misguided
by Angela Mohan on
May 3, 2021 at 9:48 AM
Self-testing of COVID-19 at home for all adults in England is a misguided policy, warn public health experts.
Coronavirus tests per case detected are already higher in the UK than anywhere in the world, and the value of adding universal low-risk testing is unknown, yet is being introduced without plans to measure the costs and consequences, wrote Angela Raffle and Mike Gill, Public Health Consultants with experience in both communicable disease control and screening programmes, in an editorial of
The BMJ.
"The priority continues to be improvement of the testing programme for everyone with symptoms no matter how minor or non-specific and all their contacts," they said.