Letter18

Given the WHO has just updated its guidance on PCR testing in a way which renders most of the testing done in the UK over the past 12 months unreliable, will you be completely rethinking your approach to lockdowns? Will you be disbanding the COVID Enforcement Officers who've been growing in number over the past 12 months? Will you be getting rid of the COVID testing station on Morning Lane, which has almost certainly been a huge generator of false positive test in the borough?

Given the World Health Organisation has finally updated its guidance on PCR testing in a way which renders most of the testing carried out in the UK over the past 12 months completely useless, isn't it time we completely reconsidered our response to COVID19? The inappropriate use of PCR testing has been pointed out by many, MANY clinicians and other specialists over the past 2 years (including the Nobel Prize winner who invented the PCR test). So why has it taken so long for this obvious mistake to be addressed, with so much damage already caused to our society and economic system? Unreliable PCR testing numbers have been used to inform EVERY decision the government has made in response to COVID19. They are used to generate the R number, which we are apparently required to