Coronavirus: Dodgy data and double counting - the UK's testing data is a mess

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How many people have been tested in the UK for COVID-19? It's a pretty simple question, which most countries are capable of answering

One of Sir David's other criticisms is one you'll probably have picked up on in the past weeks: that the government is obsessed with getting the number of tests up as high as possible, but is lumping all sorts of very different kinds of things in under the headline of"tests".His other is that the data is enormously complicated and the government makes very little effort to try to explain it.

These include the drive-in tests that are becoming increasingly commonplace around the country. These tests - at least the in-person tests - have hovered around the 30,000 mark in recent weeks. I say in person because actually a lot of the pillar 2 tests are test kits which have been sent out to households.There are two other pillars: pillar 3 is the serology antibody tests that are now starting.

Again, these are a category difference from the rest, since they are not really a clinical test but more of an academic exercise - important though such things are. While it's clear the government's capacity to test has improved enormously from the early stages of the pandemic , the public understanding of what those tests are telling us has, if anything, taken a step backwards.

For instance, while there have been 33,000 tests a day on average in the past fortnight, the average number of people tested under pillar 1 is just under 21,000.

 

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