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The increased use of antigen testing for COVID-19 could come sooner rather than later, as the process has found a supporter in An Taoiseach Michéal Marti...
Several experts have questioned why Ireland is a notable 'outlier' when it comes to using antigen tests to detect COVID-19. It follows after reports that the Ch...
At a Nphet briefing last week the chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan warned that people might buy sausages, charcoal for the barbecue and a box of antigen tests, to which Lidl Ireland responded: âWeekend Super Savers! Pick up a pound of sausages, charcoal for the BBQ and antigen tests for â¬31.â Prof Nolan said Ireland had prompt PCR testing so âit is hard to see the value added by self-administered antigen testingâ. He added that Nphet âfundamentally disagreedâ with the literature cited by Prof Mina in favour of home antigen tests. âFundamentally,...
Nolan responds to Harvard professor who told him he did not understand antigen tests