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.
Mass home screening for asymptomatic SARS-CoV-2 infection unlikely to reduce transmission
Apr 30 2021
Encouraging self-testing at home twice a week for all adults in England, and soon Scotland, is a misguided policy, unlikely to reduce transmission, warn public health experts in The BMJ today.
In an editorial, Angela Raffle and Mike Gill, Public Health Consultants with experience in both communicable disease control and screening programs, say that the UK is not yet succeeding in testing, and supporting to isolate, everyone with symptoms and their contacts.
Coronavirus tests per case detected are already higher in the UK than anywhere in the world, they write, and the value of adding universal low-risk testing is unknown, yet is being introduced without plans to measure the costs and consequences.
E-Mail 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
Encouraging self-testing at home twice a week for all adults in England, and soon Scotland, is a misguided policy, unlikely to reduce transmission, warn public health experts in
The BMJ today.
In an editorial, Angela Raffle and Mike Gill, Public Health Consultants with experience in both communicable disease control and screening programmes, say that the UK is not yet succeeding in testing, and supporting to isolate, everyone with symptoms and their contacts.
Coronavirus tests per case detected are already higher in the UK than anywhere in the world, they write, and the value of adding universal low-risk testing is unknown, yet is being introduced without plans to measure the costs and consequences.
UK s home Covid testing is misguided, won t cut transmission
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London, April 29 : Encouraging self-testing of coronavirus infections at home twice a week for all adults in England is a misguided policy, unlikely to reduce transmission, 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 Power and the Glory
Good news is a rare commodity these days. Your good news generally tends to be somebody else’s bad news – in the karmic balance of Covid-19, writes
Terence Cosgrave.
You get a raise in your wages – somebody else has to pay. Covid is a danger to older people, but flu seems to have disappeared. There are more doctors on TV than ever, but bizarrely people still keep getting sick.
But the news that the Irish Medical Organisation has secured agreement with the Department of Health and the Health Service Executive to create 84 new Public Health Consultant posts is good news for just about everybody – not least the IMO itself.