However, the retailer was met with criticism by both Dr Holohan and Maynooth University President,"The risk that we see, and I wasn't critical of retailers, I was advising people in terms of their behaviours, to not buy these tests in retail environments and then use them," Dr Holohan said on Monday.
"What we could really be inducing here is a situation where people feel having taken this test 'I don't need to go with my symptoms to my GP and get a PCR test'. Or they may feel that they can in fact undertake activities that are not safe for them to undertake and spread the disease to other people."
"Even in expert hands, maybe around 50% of the time with sensitivity, that means one in every two cases, where an antigen test is done, we're finding it will miss the disease," he continued."In that case, it might pick up a case and is beneficial to the person, but in a case, for example, where it falsely reassures a person who is going to a wedding that is happening because you're using antigen tests, you have the potential for a super-spreading event to take place.
Every other country in the EU is using. Pitiful!
Poor Tony hasn't moved on from this time last year when that lad painted that stupid 'Superman' mural of him. The rest of the country has moved on though. The 'Yesterdays Men' in NPHET are out of date, out of step, and thankfully out of time. 👋👋👋 Bye, NPHET.
Can anyone explain the point of them? If you want to get tested for Covid would you not just get PCR test? I get it for workplace etc. but apart from that what would the general public be needing them for? Is just to take a test before you meet up with people?
In isolation there isn't much issue. The issue increases with frequency, e.g. at a concert. Then Baye's theorem kicks and all but guarantees the tests are useless.
Haha cos he’s not in charge of it or his mates arnt making any cash off it
Cos they weren't his idea, he's in charge of the covid toys 😭😭😭
So he doesn't trust us basically. Whilst other countries are being encouraged to use them and even given them for free in some cases. Unbelievable.
Because heaven forbid people might draw their own conclusions rather than the NPHET/RTE prism, they would prefer us to see...
Even the dog on the street knows there ok to use 👍🏼
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