Thread by @PandaScottish, [thread] on testshttps://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-the-target-was-for-100000-tests-a-day-to-be-carried-out-not-capacity-to-do-100000-tests Matt Hancock 2nd April 2020"I am now setting the [...]

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FactCheck: the target was for 100,000 tests a day to be ‘carried out’, not ‘capacity’ to do 100,000...

The target Matt Hancock set out was not to increase capacity to 100,000 tests a day, it was to actually do those tests.

https://www.channel4.com/news/factcheck/factcheck-the-target-was-for-100000-tests-a-day-to-be-carried-out-not-capacity-to-do-100000-tests

Matt Hancock

2nd April 2020

"I am now setting the goal of 100,000 tests per day by the end of this month.That is the goal and I’m determined that we will get there" https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/02/matt-hancock-promises-100000-tests-day-end-april-12500642/

Matt Hancock promises 100,000 tests a day by end of April

Mr Hancock said the new national effort for testing will ensure that we can get 'tests for everyone who needs them'.

https://metro.co.uk/2020/04/02/matt-hancock-promises-100000-tests-day-end-april-12500642/

Boris Johnson

19th March 2020

"By the same token we're massively increasing the testing to see whether you have it now and ramping up daily testing from 5,000 a day, to 10,000 to 25,000 and then up at 250,000."

So amidst what will no doubt be a debate over 100,000 capacity of testing on a day

Or the number of tests carried out on a day

Turn the question around

Ask how many require testing

1)Patients admitted into hospital
2) Patients in care home symptomatic
3)Essential staff self-isolating
Hospital medics
Care home
GPs
Police
Fire service
Ambulance staff
111 staff
Armed forces
MPs https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-30/covid-19-one-in-four-doctors-off-sick-or-in-isolation/

Covid-19: One in four doctors off sick or in isolation

Around one in four NHS doctors are off work sick or in isolation, the head of the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has said, as a leading expert revealed there were signs of a slowdown in Covid-19...

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-03-30/covid-19-one-in-four-doctors-off-sick-or-in-isolation/

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