| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:29 - Mar 13 with 843 views | StokieBlue |
SK responded quickly and have actually tested the most people per million of population out of any country in the world. It seems to have been a good approach.
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| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:33 - Mar 13 with 818 views | footers |
| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:29 - Mar 13 by StokieBlue |
SK responded quickly and have actually tested the most people per million of population out of any country in the world. It seems to have been a good approach.
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Is there a risk of a shortage of tests with that approach, SB? Is that why we've limited testing to only those with severe symptoms?
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| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:35 - Mar 13 with 797 views | StokieBlue |
| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:33 - Mar 13 by footers |
Is there a risk of a shortage of tests with that approach, SB? Is that why we've limited testing to only those with severe symptoms?
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I am not actually sure how SK managed to get so many tests done. You need to take the sample and then add an accelerator to increase the amount of virus so it's detectable against all the other stuff in your body and then you have to sequence it.
It's been an impressive response from them.
Conversely, a few days ago, the US only managed to test 5 people per million against SK's 3500+. I did see one state only had 200 kits left although I think they have produced a lot more since then. I am unsure on the supply the UK has - I think the lab time is the limiting factor as it's not a simple test unfortunately.
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| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:38 - Mar 13 with 767 views | footers |
| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:35 - Mar 13 by StokieBlue |
I am not actually sure how SK managed to get so many tests done. You need to take the sample and then add an accelerator to increase the amount of virus so it's detectable against all the other stuff in your body and then you have to sequence it.
It's been an impressive response from them.
Conversely, a few days ago, the US only managed to test 5 people per million against SK's 3500+. I did see one state only had 200 kits left although I think they have produced a lot more since then. I am unsure on the supply the UK has - I think the lab time is the limiting factor as it's not a simple test unfortunately.
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I'd guess with neighbours like that you'd constantly be on some sort of war footing. But as you say, very impressive.
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| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:58 - Mar 13 with 726 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:29 - Mar 13 by StokieBlue |
SK responded quickly and have actually tested the most people per million of population out of any country in the world. It seems to have been a good approach.
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You would think that surely the more tests the better.
People have been extrapolating the potential impact by looking at deaths versus confirmed cases.
If you extrapolate the impact of 10 deaths based on the c.500 currently confirmed cases, it looks a lot worse than 10 deaths based on yesterdays estimate of 10,000+ current cases.
Who knows, the current number of cases could be 20,000+ or more.
Clearly 1 death is too many, maybe they will be able to produce a self testing kit with quicker results at some point. |  |
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| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:59 - Mar 13 with 718 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:35 - Mar 13 by StokieBlue |
I am not actually sure how SK managed to get so many tests done. You need to take the sample and then add an accelerator to increase the amount of virus so it's detectable against all the other stuff in your body and then you have to sequence it.
It's been an impressive response from them.
Conversely, a few days ago, the US only managed to test 5 people per million against SK's 3500+. I did see one state only had 200 kits left although I think they have produced a lot more since then. I am unsure on the supply the UK has - I think the lab time is the limiting factor as it's not a simple test unfortunately.
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What do you do SB?
You sound knowledgeable on this type of issue. (I have no knowledge on this type of issue, so you could be talking nonsense for all I know, but it seems to make sense!!) | |
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| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:59 - Mar 13 with 719 views | StokieBlue |
| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:58 - Mar 13 by Marshalls_Mullet |
You would think that surely the more tests the better.
People have been extrapolating the potential impact by looking at deaths versus confirmed cases.
If you extrapolate the impact of 10 deaths based on the c.500 currently confirmed cases, it looks a lot worse than 10 deaths based on yesterdays estimate of 10,000+ current cases.
Who knows, the current number of cases could be 20,000+ or more.
Clearly 1 death is too many, maybe they will be able to produce a self testing kit with quicker results at some point. |
It's quite hard to test for, that is the problem.
A quick self-test kit would solve all the problems. You test and if positive you isolate.
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| Interesting article on differing approaches on 13:01 - Mar 13 with 713 views | Marshalls_Mullet |
| Interesting article on differing approaches on 12:59 - Mar 13 by StokieBlue |
It's quite hard to test for, that is the problem.
A quick self-test kit would solve all the problems. You test and if positive you isolate.
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Agreed. To be fair, I appreciate I was being very idealistic. | |
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