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Testing Capacity of 200,000 per day
« on: Wednesday 06 May 20 15:04 BST (UK) »
I see Boris Johnson has now set a target of 200,000 tests by the end of May.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-52547869

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« Reply #1 on: Wednesday 06 May 20 16:46 BST (UK) »
I gather from various news outlets that the No 10 spokesperson has clarified this. It's capacity not tests.

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Re: Testing
« Reply #2 on: Wednesday 06 May 20 16:52 BST (UK) »
It seems they are failing to use all the 100,000 test capacity at the moment. So what difference would having the capacity to do twice as many make?
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Re: Testing
« Reply #3 on: Wednesday 06 May 20 16:53 BST (UK) »
It sounds better, maybe.

Add - maybe this new App will generate a higher demand for tests  :-\
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Re: Testing
« Reply #4 on: Wednesday 06 May 20 17:29 BST (UK) »
Our nearest test centre is a 35 minute drive away.  Looking at the website you can request the test if you are an essential worker, living with an essential worker, or over 65, but you still only get a test if you think you have symptoms.  With numbers of cases falling capacity seems irrelevant.
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« Reply #5 on: Wednesday 06 May 20 18:35 BST (UK) »
I have not really understood capacity - thank you.
One opened  in our local area today for ‘targeted groups of key workers with bookings made via employers’. It can undertake 50 tests a day so presumably that is the capacity.
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« Reply #6 on: Wednesday 06 May 20 19:51 BST (UK) »
Yes, that's capacity. Then there are how many tests - say 30 out of your 50 BUT then you have to  analyze and inform the person.

Our local news report tonight interviewed a person who's brother had died of Covid a week or so ago. This person had had a test and is still waiting for the results 10 days later.

So bottle necks and problems all the way  :-\

Note that some people are tested more than once so number of tests does not equal number of people tested*

*update - latest figs given today - 69,463 tests carried out or posted to recipients. With some doubles, those tests were provided to a total of 57,006 people.
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Re: Testing
« Reply #7 on: Wednesday 06 May 20 21:17 BST (UK) »
The government site which you can use to acquire home testing kits has had none available since last Friday!!

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« Reply #8 on: Thursday 07 May 20 09:05 BST (UK) »
Yes, that's capacity. Then there are how many tests - say 30 out of your 50 BUT then you have to  analyze and inform the person.

Our local news report tonight interviewed a person who's brother had died of Covid a week or so ago. This person had had a test and is still waiting for the results 10 days later.

So bottle necks and problems all the way  :-\

Note that some people are tested more than once so number of tests does not equal number of people tested*

*update - latest figs given today - 69,463 tests carried out or posted to recipients. With some doubles, those tests were provided to a total of 57,006 people.

That is the problem with a lot of stats. the devil is in the detail.
Virus test results are only for the moment the test is taken, the person could be clear when the test is done and be coughed on walking out of the room and become infected. Health service workers should really be tested on a regular frequency and even then could be a source of infection between tests, but how many times could we expect a health service worker to be tested unless they were worried themselves?

There is a difference between hospital tests and testing station tests which take longer to be analysed.

The tests themselves are not 100% accurate etc., etc.

It is very similar to the graphs shown of deaths in various countries, each country counts deaths by covid-19 in different ways, the graphs compare countries with different populations and different population densities with no differential between them.

The press chase stories of PPE supply failings but don't take into account boxes labeled as gowns but when opened contain gloves or aprons etc. Neither do they take into account each batch has to be checked they pass safety standards before being issued to hospitals.

Even in normal times similar "errors" occur, but at least they are being caught before supply.
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