Testing....testing...slither....slither
Wednesday 22nd April – 2:30pm The government has said that it will have 100,000 coronavirus tests a day being done by the end of April. Impressive? Well, it depends on what you understand by the statement. Maybe you didn't understand it properly. Does it mean that: A) 100,000 tests per day would be done each day after the end of April, or that the capacity to do 100,000 tests a day would be there from the end of April but won't necessarily actually be performed because of staffing issues which we could not possibly have predicted in this unprecedented situation despite the fact that we were warned? Slither, slither. B) Does it mean that the results of those tests would be available immediately so that the tests are valuable to us all? Or would the results take a lot longer because of very limited lab capacity to process the tests? So although 100,000 tests would be done every day, the results will be backed up for weeks so that the usefulness of having 100,000 testin...