With growth rates like that, other experts have pointed out the time it takes for a PCR test to be taken, processed and the result returned makes them meaningless.
Right now, the problem with that is that people don't have to report a positive result. But that could be overcome by asking people with symptoms to have a"confirmed" lateral flow test carried out at a testing centre.A move away from community testing A move away from PCR testing in the community could free up excess capacity in hospitals which, in the coming weeks, are going to need all the help they can get, argued McNally.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
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aTomClarke I have known over 20 people to have had Omicron. Most have very mild / no symptoms with only 1 or 2 describing cold like symptoms. Blowing it out of proportion as usual.
aTomClarke Bullshit shove it media lies and properganda boring now your covis 19 & omicron are just fiction just to scare folks
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