We just got an email from our university that says that there will be a program in the next few weeks to do mass testing of staff and students...who only live in campus/uni accommodation. Which I do not think actually accounts for most of the population who work/study there
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Isn't the point in the email that there's two different types of testing going on - diagnostic testing for symptomatic cases by the health centre and opt-in screening (as distinct from testing, i.e. antibody prick tests) in residences? I may have misunderstood though
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Replying to @NiallOSuill @AdmiralHip
The reason that distinction is important is that screening is (or was, back in May when the UK was trying to roll it out nationally) waaaaaaaay less accurate, w/ best case scenarios @ 70% accuracy, and too many false negatives.
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Replying to @NiallOSuill
I think screening may be more accurate now, but I am unsure. The screening recommendation was from Luke O'Neill, who said that anyone who screened positive could then get a PCR test.
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Replying to @AdmiralHip
Yeah, I expect there's improvements since May. But tbh, given the lack of certainty on the effectiveness of screening (I'd love to see any robust data on it) and the cost (old info again, but in May it was c. €90/test), trialing it on the most cluster-prone area seems sensible
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I don't think that this is a place for trials, to be honest. Or they should have it extended as far as possible. Even if accuracy is low, the more cases it could catch seems better to me.
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