The Pc R Testing Infra Structure Is Not Going to Be Able to Keep Up at This Level, but It's a Possibility

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There's been some suggestions that our testing capacities might struggle to keep up at this level. I don't know it it's having an impact yet, because a lot of pc ar tests are coming back within three days. And i guess this will partly depend on how case numbers develop over the next few weeks. So it'ske what these numbers mean. They tell you about the epidemic in this country days ago.

Yesterday, daily cases in the UK exceeded 100,000 for the first time since the pandemic began. Despite this, the government has stuck to its guns in refusing to introduce any restrictions in England before Christmas Day. Yesterday also saw the publishing of a report from a team at Imperial College London that suggests, in the UK, the risk of a hospital stay is 40% lower with Omicron than Delta. To find out what all this means for the weeks and months ahead, Madeleine Finlay speaks to the Guardian’s science editor, Ian Sample.. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod