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Robert Peston

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The leaked document attached to this ⁦ @openDemocracy⁩ story is extraordinary. It seems to imply Public Health England core #COVID19 test is much less reliable than commercial alternatives. Questions for ⁦ @MattHancock⁩ https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exclusive-nhs-using-flawed-covid-19-test-missing-25-of-positives/">https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opende...

EXCLUSIVE: NHS using ‘flawed’ COVID-19 test – missing 25% of positives

Hancock under pressure to resign as leaked documents show NHS is using knowingly flawed tests for coronavirus

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/opendemocracyuk/exclusive-nhs-using-flawed-covid-19-test-missing-25-of-positives/

Read the extraordinary Public Health England memo here https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zoki1xUKuY15JmPujZXd-mMjXn0K_2GM/view?usp=drivesdk">https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Z...

200411_PHE BN2020-012_UpdatingPHE COVID-19DiagnosticTestProtocols.pdf

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Zoki1xUKuY15JmPujZXd-mMjXn0K_2GM/view?usp=drivesdk

Though in the first instance the questions about the apparent low reliability of the #COVID19 test are surely for Public Health England itself and its senior scientists. Here is what PHE originally said about its own test https://www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-novel-coronavirus-diagnostic-test-rolled-out-across-uk">https://www.gov.uk/governmen...

PHE novel coronavirus diagnostic test rolled out across UK

The increase in diagnostic capacity from one laboratory in London to 12 labs will accelerate the country’s testing capabilities.

https://www.gov.uk/government/news/phe-novel-coronavirus-diagnostic-test-rolled-out-across-uk

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