Covid-19: Testing All Healthcare Professionals Once or Weekly, Says Top UK Scientists | World News

According to Sir Paul Nurse, one of the UK’s most prominent scientists, all medical staff should test Covid-19 once or twice a week on a regular basis. According to a study by the team at SirPaul Nurse, 45% were infected with coronavirus at peak times, and 40% had no symptoms in an English pandemic.

Providing evidence to Nurse, Commons’ Health and Social Care Selection Committee, which turned the Crick Institute into a testing laboratory, secures health staff and makes them confident to stay in hospital.

“My colleague of Crick contacted Downing Street in March and wrote to the Minister [Matt] Hancock in April emphasizes two main things. Regular routines for all healthcare professionals, including support staff, ambulance drivers, and other healthcare professionals (nursing homes, GP surgeries, community nurses, etc.) as well as front-line doctors and nurses. The importance of systematic inspection, etc. All of these need to be tested.

“Only in the midst of the pandemic, what supports our own research, and of course elsewhere, is that up to 45% of healthcare workers were infected. Had been infected… but reinfected the patient, but it was not systematically tested.”

The second thing they did to Hancock was that many people tested positive without symptoms.

“Again, our own research showed that almost 40% of healthcare workers at the time were infected but asymptomatic, which was a really big mistake. In a healthcare setting, It didn’t provide adequate protection, and that’s important.”

Healthcare professionals “deserve to work in a safe environment. In other words, some of them have died.”

According to him, regular inspections are important before the second wave of autumn and winter. He rejected some test claims that people were infected when they weren’t. In his lab, there was only 1 false positive out of 5,000 tests.

The nurse said it was not always clear who was responsible. “It’s not always clear, at least to me and my colleagues, who exactly is responsible and who makes the decisions.”

Sir Jeremy Farrar, Head of Wellcome, said the UK was not prepared for a coronavirus pandemic. Like many other parts of the world, it has ignored public health since the first outbreak of 2003, he said.

“From Monkey 1 to Ebola, Zika, [flu] The 2009 pandemic. Maybe the world has become a bit ironic. The new infection did not cause the devastation that some people said they would. And we were wary and didn’t understand the power of infectious diseases,” he said.

“So I think critically, I need to find out the period of entering January and February before December 2019. This is what I consider to be an absolutely important two months .”

By 20 January, it was very clear that the virus wasn’t like Thirds 1, he said. They had subclinical infections, were highly infectious, and caused a variety of mild to very severe illnesses.

“It’s animal infections that humans are not immune to, and there is no diagnosis, no cure, no vaccine,” Farrar said.

“I think the lessons learned by South Korea, Singapore, and Vietnam from previous epidemics have been successfully implemented, and they have acted faster. The UK has conducted trials, conducted additional clinical competence and I think it was too late to ensure PPE protection, and as a result, the epidemic in Britain was not the same as in South Korea, Germany, and even Singapore and Vietnam due to subsequent events.”

Farah said the January and February tests should have increased significantly in the UK due to a global pandemic. Instead, they decided that the community was overloaded with the virus and instead locked it down.

“In retrospect, I think it was a mistake,” he said.

That was WHO advice and what Germany, South Korea, Singapore and Vietnam did-a country with few deaths.

“It would have been a better option to increase testing in February.

“It returns to my comment on the eight weeks in January and February that I didn’t think was urgent enough. And let me look back at my sage committee time again, now. Sage regrets that the advice wasn’t that frank or more robust.” But it wasn’t Sage’s authority to hold someone accountable, he said.