This seems bonkers. I can order a box of 7 tests each day from the NHS at no cost. I have three boxes in the other room to use over the Christmas holidays. Anytime we leave the house we do a test, takes a minute to do and has results in 15 minutes.
A short note to say that I have appreciated your Omicron posts since finding you via Dominic Cummings' Twitter account. I had also previously come across your name via Curtis Yarvin's Substack (Gray Mirror). A combination of your Substack and NNT's Twitter account have been very insightful (from different vantage points) into the vaccines.
This puts a slightly different slant on the FDA's damning indictment of Innova's products (one of the makers of Lateral Flow tests used in the UK, but coincidentally an American company).
I can't pretend to understand the political objections to use of rapid tests in the US, but reading this blog certainly makes one think about the motivations for dismissing a test that has been perfectly reliable (when used within its limitations) for a year this side of the pond.
This seems bonkers. I can order a box of 7 tests each day from the NHS at no cost. I have three boxes in the other room to use over the Christmas holidays. Anytime we leave the house we do a test, takes a minute to do and has results in 15 minutes.
Hi Zvi --
A short note to say that I have appreciated your Omicron posts since finding you via Dominic Cummings' Twitter account. I had also previously come across your name via Curtis Yarvin's Substack (Gray Mirror). A combination of your Substack and NNT's Twitter account have been very insightful (from different vantage points) into the vaccines.
Wishing you and yours a Merry Christmas
Definitely worth point out that that person who paid £150 for a test in the UK was paying for a certificate that would allow them to fly.
Rapid tests themselves are free and abundant (for now).
Yes, should have been clearer. I do wonder how long before the reserve gets burned through.
Perhaps companies can start selling boxes of rapid tests marked "FOR NOVELTY USE ONLY. NOT INTENDED TO DIAGNOSE COVID OR ANY OTHER DISEASE."
Exactly my thought
I wish. We're well past the point where we would have tried that trick if it worked.
This puts a slightly different slant on the FDA's damning indictment of Innova's products (one of the makers of Lateral Flow tests used in the UK, but coincidentally an American company).
I can't pretend to understand the political objections to use of rapid tests in the US, but reading this blog certainly makes one think about the motivations for dismissing a test that has been perfectly reliable (when used within its limitations) for a year this side of the pond.
I certainly would not worry that there's something wrong with an Innova test based on the FDA's lack of approval.