Sean Derrig listening to our new stand in PM earlier the press seem to be trying hat all the time !!!!

I think much of the reporting (and pretty much everything on FaceAche) centres around making cheap political points and not facts.

Sorry I was being naïve – why have the goons not been told of this reality ?

Tony – PCR of various flavours has been around since January. How much it’s been used in UK is a different question.
Immunoassay was only licensed last week, I think. Reports on the point of care tests I’ve seen were dated 20th.

Tony Taylor I should add, as I know a little bit about this having done a bit of work related to drug immunoassays back in the dawn of time, that the antibodies are specific to a virus, and of course the virus itself was unknown until the end of last year. So the assay has to be very specific – there’s loads of different antibodies in our blood, and it has to ignore them or it would give a false positive. I don’t want to claim knowledge I don’t have, but it seems pretty quickly developed to me.

Tony Taylor Because it’s just been/being developed, as the article says.