
So you thought that having a foot-long swab stuffed up your nose was not something you were looking forward to. Well, thank God you don’t live in Galicia then.
The Junta announced this morning that it will carry out massive screening in any municipality with over 500 cases per 100,000 cases of Covid.
Axel and I have frequently written about the sense and nonsense of treatments, but hardly about tests. Tests are neither a magic wand to keep you healthy, nor to detect illness. For example everybody agrees on fasting blood sugar testing, but what does a normal result say? Everything and nothing. As a single test it may be useful to screen for diabetes, but a normal test does still not exclude it entirely.