Health
What is No 10’s ‘moonshot’ Covid testing plan and is it feasible? – The Guardian
Plan to provide rapid tests for 10 million people a day would be hugely costly –and the technology does not yet exist
They call it the moonshot and it is as ambitious as any space adventure.
This is the name given to the government project that aims to ramp up testing to such a scale that it will return the country to some kind of normality. But is it feasible? And what about the cost?
Two internal government documents seen by the Guardian give an indication of the task, and the huge difficulties ahead.
The underlying proposition is simple.
As the documents explain, mass testing of the population on a very…
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