20 President Trump maligned for not testing enough, it isn't as effective as they pretend to begin with! (www.bbc.com) posted 1 year ago by ChocktawRidge 1 year ago by ChocktawRidge +20 / -0 2 comments share 2 comments share save hide report block hide child comments Comments (2) sorted by: top new old worst ▲ 1 ▼ – AnchorFrog01 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0 They dont want testing. They want someone to hold them and give them attention. There have been people (cruise ship in Japan) who have tested negative, negative, then all of a sudden positive. permalink save report block reply ▲ 1 ▼ – ChocktawRidge [S] 1 point 1 year ago +1 / -0 On calls for testing for all, the UK's health secretary says the test is "not reliable for people who are not symptomatic". He says that is why testing at the airport, for example, is not effective and some of the countries that started doing that have stopped.> There are "loads of false positives" with temperature testing as the person "might be ill with something else", he says. Or there are "loads of false negatives... because they don’t have enough virus in their system yet to be symptomatic". "Testing of someone who does not have symptoms is not reliable and is counter-productive so we won’t be doing it." permalink save report block reply
They dont want testing. They want someone to hold them and give them attention. There have been people (cruise ship in Japan) who have tested negative, negative, then all of a sudden positive.
He says that is why testing at the airport, for example, is not effective and some of the countries that started doing that have stopped.>
There are "loads of false positives" with temperature testing as the person "might be ill with something else", he says.
Or there are "loads of false negatives... because they don’t have enough virus in their system yet to be symptomatic".
"Testing of someone who does not have symptoms is not reliable and is counter-productive so we won’t be doing it."