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Just saw that Austria are about to start doing random covid19 tests to try to get a better picture of true prevalence in the community. Not sure if they mean antibody or full viral test.
Interesting approach. Sounds like it could be quite useful?
This was spoken about briefly in yesterday’s press briefing. UK labs have 3k tests for surveillance testing in order to calculate likely immunity etc.
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Just saw that Austria are about to start doing random covid19 tests to try to get a better picture of true prevalence in the community. Not sure if they mean antibody or full viral test.
Interesting approach. Sounds like it could be quite useful?A private company in Iceland has already had a go, but is limited to people volunteering to have the test done so perhaps not completely random.
https://edition.cnn.com/2020/04/01/europe/iceland-testing-coronavirus-intl/index.html
Sweden and Norway gearing up to do random testing schemes run by health authorities.
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Just saw that Austria are about to start doing random covid19 tests to try to get a better picture of true prevalence in the community. Not sure if they mean antibody or full viral test.
Interesting approach. Sounds like it could be quite useful?