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Health Minister slammed on antigen testing message
“Absolutely disgraceful”
I should start this piece with a clarification, so as to avoid any confusion about the intention behind it, or the analysis which follows. This is not a policy proposal. It is not an attempt to convince Ireland’s policymakers that a mass rapid testing program would produce better health outcomes than their current strategy, that […]
The government is reportedly planning to potentially use rapid antigen testing to allow indoor dining and drinking by the end of July, in defiance of NPHET. Government officials and representatives of the hospitality industry will be meeting today to discuss the re-opening of the sector, and according to several senior cabinet ministers, antigen testing is […]
A “great relief for patients, public and staff”.
Regular readers will be familiar with Dr. Michael Mina, the Harvard expert on antigen testing who pronounced himself feeling “sorry for Ireland” a few weeks back, after listening to Stephen Donnelly play down the benefits of antigen testing on the radio. Dr. Mina paid a visit to Dublin yesterday, presumably to see for himself the […]
In February, 12 large Canadian companies joined forces to trial mass rapid testing in their workplaces as a potential route to the reopening of their business. In March, 5,000 people attended an indoor concert in Barcelona with the help of rapid antigen tests and only two infections were traced to the event. Universities in the […]
My colleague Gary Kavanagh made an observation last night which will stick with me for some time: The great trick of Irish policymakers, he said, has been to convince people that the consequences of their decisions are in fact the consequences of Covid, and that there was never any other way. No matter what happens, […]
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