Go back to mid 2020 and try and make the argument that "there's no real point to mass testing". Nobody would even dare to have made that argument. We decided as a country, with across … (View Post)

Exactly, and the targets seemed implausibly ambitious. We now do 800,000 or more PCR tests every single day, and the critics no longer talk about test numbers or turn-around times. The UK's test… (View Post)

Smaller scale is really underplaying it. The existing public health system has nothing like the capability required to deal with COVID-19. We are doing an absolutely incredible amount of testing now,… (View Post)

Apparently 80% of the cost is on testing itself. I doubt that even Labour would argue that doing vast numbers of PCR tests a day can be done cheaply. (View Post)

That's not the fault of Test & Trace, there was no political will at all for a draconian isolation programme. i.e. Force people to isolate under threat of a severe penalty. (View Post)