Submitted on Sunday 29th March 2020
Rejected on Wednesday 13th May 2020
Current status: Rejected
Rejection code: duplicate (see below for details)
Stop Covid-19, save thousands of lives and £billions by testing everyone weekly.
Test the whole UK population for Covid-19 weekly using every PCR machine in the country (and buy more if needed). Together with intensive contact tracing and quarantining the infected, the country could resume normal life immediately. End lock down, save £billions and thousands of lives.
A crash programme to enlist all existing PCR (polymerase chain reaction) facilities, acquire or manufacture the PCR reagents, and agree protocols including a laptop program for barcode reading in smaller laboratories would only be needed for about 2 months but could be rapidly reintroduced to control any future epidemic caused by a new virus. Lock down could be ended sooner, the economy could rebound and tens of thousands of lives could be saved.
See https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1163
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