Scale down on testing, scale up on vaccines

September 13,2021 - 08:00 AMIt’s resulting in a waste of public funds, with little hope of slowing down the pandemic. Everyone is quarreling about the correct level of quarantine restriction , but a far bigger problem is being overlooked.

When someone shows symptoms of the virus, he/she is first subjected to an antigen test by the local government at a cost of P800. The national government, through the Department of Health , then makes a confirmatory RT-PCR test at a cost of P3,800. That’s a total cost of P4,600 per person, just to confirm what he/she is already experiencing. That much is spent with no treatment or vaccine yet that will address the illness.

Last Saturday, the DOH reported 26,303 new infections, and we presumably spent P121 million on tests in one day. If we multiply this test cost by a year, we are and we will be spending tens of billions of public funds on test cost alone. With projections that new infections will reach 40,000 or more per day by October, we are looking at wasting a humongous amount of public funds on test cost.

Also, instead of testing all symptomatic individuals, the government should selectively use testing as a flashlight to search for asymptomatic individuals who are potential superspreaders because they heavily interact with the public, like health and business frontliners and public employees.

You know why vaccinated people are still required to wear a mask 😷 ? Because vaccines DOESN'T guarantee you anything. 😷

Finally somone gets it 🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗

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