"Recliner" wrote in message
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tim... wrote:


"Recliner" wrote in message
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Roland Perry wrote:
In message , at 09:41:15 on Tue, 23 Jun

MHRA says "stop the finger prick tests"...

until home collection of this sample type has
been properly assessed and validated for use with these laboratory
tests.

...*until*

This does not affect rapid, point of care tests or laboratory tests
performed using blood taken from the vein.

The Agency has recently updated its guidance on home antibody testing
kits,
to ensure that the public and industry have the latest information on
the
reliability of test results and what they mean.

Graeme Tunbridge, MHRA Interim Director of Devices, comments:

with the announcement that there are now going to be "walk in" centres
for
people who cannot attend the current drive-ins, I took a look at the
process
so that I might be able to see if my long lasting, but very minor,
symptoms
are COVID (as the doctor continually suggest that they might be).

And firstly I fell at the first global hurdle - "you should make sure to
take the test during the first 5 days of symptoms" (so I'm out there by
more
than 100 days)

and second I fell at the ridiculous assault course inserted in front of
the
walk-in centres - "do not come to the centre by public transport or
taxi -
walk or cycle"

there are 4 of them in the whole country

are they really expecting "ill" people to walk/cycle 150 miles to get to
one
of them?

Nuts!

Yes, that's absurd. Can you get a home antibody test, to check if you've
had and recovered from it?

I didn't think that such a test was routinely available, even in the private
market

I thought all of these tests were speculate and unreliable