Regular Covid testing will result in a 'public health disaster' with thousands forced needlessly to self-isolate, an academic has warned. Expensive business: Mass testing could cost the country untold billionsBut Allyson Pollock, a professor of public health at Newcastle University, warned the rollout of mass testing is 'going to do more harm than good'. This is a public health disaster.' It flies in the face of both good public health policy and official assurances about the most effective way to combat the virus. That may sound like a tiny fraction, but it means that for every million people tested there will be almost 1,000 false positives.

Source: The Nation April 05, 2021 21:56 UTC