I'm not sure it does *need* to be done (although I think they're right to explore it). Spending millions a week on a strategy that hasn't been proven to work anywhere, and might actually increase transmission, seems an odd priority when you can spend on what *has* been effective
On top of that the health care system there seems to be imploding, and they have managed to do it. They started with offering tests to those who wanted it, and then they gave pharmacies the ability to test asymptomatic people.
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Surely the issue w/ mass PCR testing is lab capacity and turnaround? I think, ATM, Ireland has a lab capacity of 15-20k/day with 1-2 turnaround: even a weekly test just in the HE sector would take up the entirety of that capacity
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Yeah, that is a problem. I don’t have a solution for that other than the government needs to sort out the HSE. But I think this was something they should have been working towards.
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