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Definitely. If it goes to completion then it'll be ~£400 of vouchers per person.
Only takes 15 minutes per test, and it's just a throat/nasal swab and not the full on nasopharyngeal swab.
You might even get picked for the extra antibody/antigen blood tests although you won't get told those results at all. Of the people on here I'm not sure anyone has been picked for the antibody part.
(You don't really get told the swab test results. I guess you'd be contacted if you were positive but I only know my negative test results because the letters they send my GP eventually appear as scanned documents on my medical record I can view online. Takes ages though, I had my last test on 6th October and the letter still hasn't appeared.)
If you find the idea of receiving a large quantity of vouchers a bit distasteful then use them to buy things you would have bought anyway and donate the equivalent amount to charity. (Which is pretty much what we're doing.)
It seems well run, the Government haven't fucked this up yet (although I guess the ONS study is at the mercy of the UK's testing infrastructure.)
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You might even get picked for the extra antibody/antigen blood tests although you won't get told those results at all. Of the people on here I'm not sure anyone has been picked for the antibody part.
We have been picked for the antibody test and we're told that we would get the swab tests back via text and the antibody ones back via gp
rj
Got a letter inviting my household to join the ONS Covid Infection Survey – I know a few people on here are already part of it, is it worth signing up?
Pros - Weekly covid tests and an antibody test with results, plus a voucher.
Cons - I've not been filled with confidence that anything official that's related to covid is going to be anything other than a shitshow