I am afraid, this is true as for various reasons the tests are not working as well as they could.
I think this is a verification issue, which is a dreadful state to be in, when we are at least 4.5 months into the pandemic and South Korea had a virus test kit working and effective in January. It is unclear if this is an issue with the kit itself or with the people who are doing the tests; centralised laboratories and not the in-hospital virology labs that normally do hospital viral tests. So I believe the results of tests are being verified in USA, as Boris has said we have a capacity to more tests than we are doing
In other news, the Sunday Times has run a feature on the CoVid19 app that is being run by Kings that Stan and I are using (and I hope others of you are too). It has generated a lot of information about the symptoms that preceed the real onset of disease. Including headaches, muscle pain as well as fever and cough, but the main symptom is extreme tiredness which apparently appears in nearly all patients. Interesting to know.
Another interesting thing is that this app is now tracking oestrogen levels, as there is increasing evidence that higher levels of oestrogen are protective. Sorry lads!
( I do not think it will become government policy to be asking you all to take the contraceptive pill as a prophylatic!!!)
So far that is my news for today, other than I have still not broken the lockdown...having not been near my grandaughter in 6 weeks...and in that time she has learnt to walk and says Cat now...before she has said Nanny!