'Game-changing' 90-min test and over-50s backlash

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Newspaper headlines: 'Game-changing' 90-minute test and over-50s backlash

Two"game-changing" coronavirus tests - which give results in 90 minutes - will be rolled out from next week, the Daily Mail reports. Heralding the development as"transformative" it says the NHS and care homes will get the tests first, before they are made more widely available. Health Secretary Matt Hancock called the move"lifesaving", the paper adds.The Times calls the tests a"significant boost" to control the virus as winter approaches.

One of the Britain's top scientists has accused the government of drawing a"shroud of secrecy" over key decisions in the coronavirus crisis, the Guardian reports. Sir Paul Nurse, the Nobel laureate and director of the Francis Crick Institute in London, has urged ministers to be more open about the reasoning behind their policies.

 

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At 90 minutes a go in a carehome of 60 plus 20 staff you would be on forever. By time you had finished you would have to start all over again 😂

Well 76 will want him named ASAP to stop their names coming under scrutiny... who knows what might pop up

From the testers allegedly being sent to US then to up to 2 wks then a few days to 90 mins. Well tht is progress.

War, nuclear option - come on who are you fooling. Great for talk, great for maybe some ratings. Its a virus, its impact hasn't been great as doomsters predicted. Time to focus on getting the country moving again. Stop with the soundbites. BorisJohnson Covid_19 getagrip

Do these people even understand what ‘nuclear option’ means. getting upset as if it’s about to come in.

So will this one work for everyone apart from those getting off a plane?

That woman on fro t of the Mail has pinched the ball.

Surely if we banned the 16 to 35 yr olds this would eradicate Covid as they are the biggest spreaders as they don't give a fuck

Imagine all those over 50s lorry drivers who deliver to supermarkets having to shield. It'll make the toilet-roll wars resemble a game of croquet in aisle 3.

Over 50's backlash? I'm over 50 and I don't care. If that's what's required then so be it. Don't particularly like it but certainly no backlash here. I wonder where, how and if this information was obtained

Stick your vaccines

Girl’s seriously pregnant.

Over 50 and being forced back to work tomorrow, d'ya think my public service/essential service employer will offer me a 90 min test before I go home to my Vulnerable Wife and Son?

This is not a game.

How accurate are the results? 90 mins to a false result is 90 mins wasted!

...if its Avacta it will be our saviour....

More tests = more positive results = more lockdowns

Another con? 90 minutes my a r s e.

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