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If it's a choice between catching nothing and catching a large portion of asymptomatic cases, we should be doing the latter.
But then we look worse on the global stage. Better off doing little to no testing to reduce the number of cases
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The problem is when people treat a negative test as a green light to do stuff (eg see their family).
frankenbike
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That's true it's not a PCR, was the only comparison I knew of.
Incidentally the Innova LFT is being used in most NHS Trusts at the moment (according to our Trust emails), and is the one intended for the mass-testing scheme, so it will be the dominant test done by a large margin. It's much less sensitive than a PCR, but it would pick up 40-60% of asymptomatic cases (per test) in any given population which would otherwise not be detected.