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School Rapid Test Cannot Be Overruled, Says Minister

by Michael Curzon
8 March 2021 2:12 PM

The number of secondary school pupils able to return to the classroom will be limited by the Government’s insistence that a positive lateral flow test result in a school cannot be overruled by the standard PCR test. Schools Minister Vicky Ford has said that pupils who test positive via the lateral flow tests will need to isolate, along with their families and close contacts and “should not take a PCR”. The BBC has the story.

The Government is sticking to the rule that a positive rapid Covid test done in secondary schools in England cannot be overruled by the gold-standard tests processed by labs.

Concerns have been raised by testing experts that significant numbers could be incorrectly told they are infected.

They have called for all positives from the rapid testing done in schools to be confirmed by the standard PCR test.

This is what will happen when testing is done at home after next week.

It will mean a pupil who tests positive at home with a rapid on-the-spot test – known as a lateral flow test – will have to isolate on the basis of that test, but will be told to get a PCR test which is processed in a lab. 

If that PCR test is negative they will be released from isolation.

But for those done in schools – pupils are being offered three tests in the next two weeks – it will be assumed the lateral flow test is right. A PCR test cannot overrule the lateral flow test.

The article draws attention to specific examples of failures taking place under this system:

One of those who has been affected already is the family of Richard Patton, from Derbyshire.

His son’s school started rapid testing last week and he tested positive. Mr Patton arranged for his 17 year-old son to get a PCR test, which came back negative.

But the whole family, including his 15 year-old daughter, is still having to isolate at home.

“It makes no sense. They were looking forward to going back to school and are now stuck at home.”

BBC health correspondent Nick Triggle points out that even if the chance of false positives is very low, “it could still lead to thousands of people having to self-isolate for no reason”.

If just half of pupils take up the offer of three tests in school and the false positive rate is 0.1% that could still lead to around 6,000 pupils being asked to isolate at home over the next week or so when they are not infected.

Tiggle makes a good point. Given the low prevalence of the virus and the false positive rate of the lateral flaw test, a majority of positive results in schools will be false positives, as Sheila Bird, a member of the Royal Statistical Society, has pointed out in a new paper.

Worth reading in full.

Stop Press: The Government has now said that if a child tests positive in a lateral flow test but negative in a PCR test, they will not have to self isolate, according to ITV News’s UK Editor Paul Brand.

Govt now says if a child tests positive in their lateral flow test but negative in their PCR test they *won’t* have to self-isolate, contrary to what the children’s minister said this morning.

— Paul Brand (@PaulBrandITV) March 8, 2021
Tags: SchoolsTesting

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huxleypiggles
huxleypiggles
3 years ago

I don’t see the point of such articles. We can pontificate as much as we like about bloody C1984 but it is utterly irrelevant. C1984 is simply one of the covers for depopulation and Reset.

Next up will be Climate lockdowns, restrictions on travel – except for the elites of course – and further punitive restrictions designed to destroy societies and like the reaction to the so called PANDEMIC they will be global.

C1984 was simply phase one of the Reset. Phase two is coming, just wait for the Glasgow shindig.

Drop the covid narrative and see what is really going on. The current lull is simply the calm before the storm.

Too many are still fast asleep, plain bloody stupid or both.

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AN other lockdown sceptic
AN other lockdown sceptic
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

The current lull is simply the calm before the storm.

100%

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isobar
isobar
3 years ago
Reply to  AN other lockdown sceptic

1000%

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chris c
chris c
3 years ago
Reply to  isobar

This needs a graph.

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IanC
IanC
3 years ago
Reply to  huxleypiggles

Yup! Restrictions on travel!
News from the US…
“Democrats have introduced a piece of legislation in Congress that would ban any American who did not get a Covid-19 vaccine from all air travel, with no exceptions”

https://dailyexpose.co.uk/2021/08/20/democrats-want-to-put-all-unvaccinated-people-on-the-terrorist-no-fly-list-and-permanently-ban-them-from-all-air-travel/

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago
Reply to  IanC

I have no doubt it will happen here too which confirms it has nothing to do with any virus, it is links to the Climate Agenda.

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
3 years ago
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Democrats 😅

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AN other lockdown sceptic
AN other lockdown sceptic
3 years ago

Great interview with tennis legend Pat Cash, he gets it!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qVrepch-f8&t=1s

Watch it before it gets zapped by the blob

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Epi
Epi
3 years ago
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Brilliant interview, this is what I thought all Aussies would be like. Thanks for pointing it out.

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SweetBabyCheeses
SweetBabyCheeses
3 years ago

“ What’s more, since transmission is driven by ‘superspreaders’”

However well intentioned these pieces are, I can’t take them seriously as soon as they regurgitate something like this. The article cited as evidence in Nature is pure bunkum. There’s never any evidence about who infects whom. And it’s just used as justification for masks and for preventing people from talking to each other – particularly those who commit the crime of being “gregarious”.

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Pavlov Bellwether
Pavlov Bellwether
3 years ago

“Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.” (Albert Einstein)
Useful information, resources and links: https://www.LCAHub.org/

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Epi
Epi
3 years ago
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Love it! 🤣

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Martin Frost
Martin Frost
3 years ago

In some respects it should not matter whether lockdowns had a significant or a marginal effect on the “R” number. It was the wrong response in the first place and happened only because the world panicked. It reflects badly on the quality of global leadership. They all seem to think and act in a similar way. This is a slippery slope and we can soon expect more of the same.

Last edited 3 years ago by Martin Frost
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SimCS
SimCS
3 years ago

Yet the null hypothesis is that the virus rises, peaks and declines of its own accord, without any human input, which is what they always do.

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Bella Donna
Bella Donna
3 years ago

If nothing else, the Plandemic has proved we have a ineffective government who left all decision making to academics who are linked to B & MG and to the Communist Party.

There is no epidemic, there never was an epidemic, in fact if you all turned off your TVs and radios you would not have known about it.

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Occams Pangolin Pie
Occams Pangolin Pie
3 years ago

Here’s a question we all know the answer to. How much did lockdown affect UK nobility? Not at all. Not one iota. Not remotely.
That is all the rest of us need to know about this confected global shitshow.

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