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The simple messaging favoured by media advisers doesn’t chime with a discipline that is messy and incomplete
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The simple messaging favoured by media advisers doesn’t chime with a discipline that is messy and incomplete
Mass Covid testing in schools costing £120,000 for every positive case found Experts call for programme to be halted and warn plans to test students at universities is haphazard, with 'outrageous' price tag 31 March 2021 • 11:30pm 'Mass testing is likely to lead to a lot of harms now that prevalence has fallen very low,' said a professor of public health Credit: Stefan Rousseau/PA Mass testing in schools is costing up to £120,000 to find just one positive case, experts claimed as they called for the programme to be halted. Between March 11 and March 17, data from secondary schools sho...
Will masks and mass testing actually help? Will infection rates go up - and would it matter?