What do you think about this? Government planning to test 10% of population (symptoms or not) with Saliva covid tests which may not be that accurate.
The government’s aim to move forward with its “moonshot” mass-testing plan could mean more than five million people in England being asked to take saliva tests each week.
"The scheme would call for one in ten people to be sent a 30-minute saliva test each week. The kits are designed to detect active infection, where people have virus particles in their system.
Several versions appear to have passed government standards, though experts warned yesterday that they were likely to fall short of the sensitivity of the standard PCR tests that have formed the backbone of the test-and-trace system. “The biggest issue is the sensitivity,” Lawrence Young, professor of molecular oncology at Warwick Medical School, said. “Clearly [the saliva tests] are not as sensitive as the PCR test. For people in the acute phase of infection, who are symptomatic, they seem to be adequate. But there’s a big question mark over whether these tests would actually detect asymptomatic infection. And we all believe that that’s a major source of the spread of the virus in the community"