@MattHancock : Hey Neil you've been quite critical of my Covid testing strategy so far. OK you scouse smartarse what would you do that's better?
@NotWIMM : Hi Matt, well first if all I would have told PHE that this is their job and I would have given them as much money as...

needed. I'd would get NHS testing capacity maxed out - after all they are the experts.
@MattHancock I kinda think I've done that...
@NotWIMM Yes but I would have also asked PHE to identify any lab with a QPCR machine and a robot. Then I would have identified a reliable source of

testing reagents that could scale. I'd get all the labs with QPCR machines and robots into regional cooperatives and get them up to scratch so they can do a good test for the local NHS.
@MattHancock Uh! No test is better than a bad test! In any case my superlabs will kick butt!

@NotWIMM Superlabs will take a long time to get up to speed. Plus they will always be slower. Regional test hubs of satellite labs led by a central NHS lab would provide capacity and speed. Which is exactly what is needed for contact tracing.
@MattHancock: Never trust scousers