An epidemic of failure: Test and Trace that doesn't work, local lockdowns that don't make sense, flu deaths counted as Covid-19... and an economy on the brink. We somehow made a crisis worse - Dr. John Lee, Daily Mail

The UK Government’s Test and Trace policy isn’t working and is worse than useless.
40 per cent of those asked to name their recent contacts were unable to remember anyone.
The tests on which Test and Trace is based are highly unreliable.
Covid is a coronavirus and its symptoms are vague: a cough, a raised temperature, the loss of taste and smell — all of which overlap with the symptoms for flu and the common cold.
When the procedure goes wrong, it generates a ‘false positive’ result: it indicates an infection where none exists.
Even with long-established tests, we’d expect to see false positives in perhaps one per cent of cases. With this one, it could quite conceivably be 5 per cent or higher.
This means that if 300,000 tests are processed in a day, perhaps 15,000 or more will generate inaccurate reports of Covid-19 infection.
One positive is not necessarily the same as another, but the Government numbers don’t differentiate.
Last week, it was reported that just 1,800 out of 110,000 occupied beds in hospitals were taken up by Covid-19 patients.
It is likely that those who died were elderly and suffering from co-morbidities such as heart disease and diabetes.
But it is also possible that they died from something else entirely — such as flu.

The UK Government’s Test and Trace policy isn’t working and is worse than useless.
40 per cent of those asked to name their recent contacts were unable to remember anyone.
The tests on which Test and Trace is based are highly unreliable.
Covid is a coronavirus and its symptoms are vague: a cough, a raised temperature, the loss of taste and smell — all of which overlap with the symptoms for flu and the common cold.
When the procedure goes wrong, it generates a ‘false positive’ result: it indicates an infection where none exists.
Even with long-established tests, we’d expect to see false positives in perhaps one per cent of cases. With this one, it could quite conceivably be 5 per cent or higher.
This means that if 300,000 tests are processed in a day, perhaps 15,000 or more will generate inaccurate reports of Covid-19 infection.
One positive is not necessarily the same as another, but the Government numbers don’t differentiate.
Last week, it was reported that just 1,800 out of 110,000 occupied beds in hospitals were taken up by Covid-19 patients.
It is likely that those who died were elderly and suffering from co-morbidities such as heart disease and diabetes.
But it is also possible that they died from something else entirely — such as flu.
Coronaviruses are as old as humanity and have resisted every attempt at a vaccine or a cure. One project to wipe out the common cold was funded for more than 40 years — and got nowhere.
Today’s flu vaccines are less than 50 per cent effective, and there is no chance whatever that a hurriedly developed Covid-19 vaccine could be anything like as good as that.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/article-8808609/DR-JOHN-LEE-Test-Trace-doesnt-work-local-lockdowns-dont-make-sense.html