What happened with that clubbing experiment in Liverpool?

[Dustyboots]

And there was a football match experiment there too wasn't there?

Nothing has been reported about the results of either of them.

I wonder if they both contributed to the massive growth in cases in the UK at the moment ...

I'm just watching a Newsnight report that says lateral flow tests should be thrown in the bin, they're so useless. Weren't they testing people with these before and after the Liverpool events?

Meant - had a positive - you weren't allowed in!

@LibbyL92

I’m attending a music festival next weekend which is a government test as well.

Download festival, 10k capacity.

I thought it had been cancelled: downloadfestival.co.uk/news-features/download-festival-2021-update/

Or is there a replacement one for a smaller capacity set up?

LF are shite.
My dc school tested them on various items.
Oranges, lemons, toilet rim etc. All came back positive!

Only tome they don't come back positive is when someone actually has covid it seems. Several colleagues have had positive pcr tests when LF were negative

@Abraxan toyed they announced a small pilot event with just UK bands

downloadfestival.co.uk/download-pilot/

Ignore that - I've seen they have created a much smaller pilot version.

Just I knew someone with tickets and they had definitely said their tickets were cancelled.

@itsgettingwierd

Am I missing something?

I would assume if you had a LFT you weren't allowed into this mass event?

Therefore it would be expected there were no asymptomatic people entering?

So surely these tests are more about the accuracy of LFT and using them in future to access mass events rather than the spread in an event?

I'm pretty sure the ethics committee wouldn't allow a "let's see how far covid spread sun an event with known positives" test!

I do know there are trials where people have volunteered to be exposed to the virus though.

Yes I think of the 5000 going to the test event in Liverpool approximately 10% weren't allowed in due to positive tests, so as there's not been a huge amount of cases afterwards surely this shows the LFT's worked? I know other test events were to trial different ways of doing things though, such as no tests but social distancing in place at the snooker iirc.

mobile.twitter.com/RichardVaughan1/status/1407303312068722689

Labour's UQ demanding why the Govt not publishing Events Research Programme findings. I've been told this is because No10 didn't want to publish the results which showed festivals are "safe" at a time when they were delaying step 4 of the roadmap

@AlecTrevelyan006

mobile.twitter.com/RichardVaughan1/status/1407303312068722689

Labour's UQ demanding why the Govt not publishing Events Research Programme findings. I've been told this is because No10 didn't want to publish the results which showed festivals are "safe" at a time when they were delaying step 4 of the roadmap

Sounds about right.