Prescribing Cycling; Temperature Checks; False Positives; Choirs and Covid-19
Inside Health
Is There a False Positive Test?
The idea that we can offer you something that gives you a false sense of reassurance. When this was looked in airports for influenza, the vast majority of people who actually had infection walked the temperature scanner no problem. The other thing that's important is that most of em say they're not intended nor designed to diagnose or detect medical conditions. We are developing evidence for drugs but when it comes to non drug interventions, a huge void in the evidence base. And my problem right now is is we do not want to seem to close that evidence gap. We just want to seem to somehow get on with it and be seen to be doing something. What i actually want and what a specific test would
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