Sir John Bell, leading the team which is pursuing the antibody test says it will be at least a month before an antibody test will be available for the public.
Chris Whitty, CMO (welcome back Chris!), says that doesn’t matter because not enough people have been infected yet to bother with testing the public. Now I usually like Chris, but two questions:
- in the absence of testing and data on asymptomatic cases, and the numbers of non recorded systematic cases just how the **** do you know how many people have been infected?
- have you considered that real people who suspect they have had the virus might want the test as soon as possible because they want to reassure theme selves that they won’t pass it on to vulnerable friends and relatives and that they want to get back to work?
FFS
Meanwhile in the Times Tom Tugenhat or whatever his name is has launched a massive, broadside attack on China, from giving us the disease to profiteering by selling us faulty ****. Good man.