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Covid-19: Screening without scrutiny, spending taxpayers’ billions
The Wilson-Jungner criteria (1) have been used for assessing the validity of a screening programme for over 50 years. The 10 criteria which need to be met for a screening test to be suitable are each discussed in detail with regards to mass screening of children for Sars-Cov-2 (Covid-19) and why this fails to meet all of the criteria and therefore needs to be scrapped immediately.UK testing for Covid-19 is expected to cost £100 billion and concerns have already been raised about the cost of mass testing of the population (4). During 2020 the super rich have become even richer and the poor poorer. Screening children doesn’t represent value for money for healthcare expenditure as a whole.
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Covid-19: Screening without scrutiny, spending taxpayers’ billions
Mass testing is a euphemism for population screening. A range of experts who care about screening for the right reasons, in the right contexts, with the right tests, and with the correct follow-up, are in no doubt. Mike Gill and Muir Gray (who was knighted for his work on national screening...
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