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Why isn't Matt Hancock taking Covid false positives seriously?

18 September 2020

10:07 PM

18 September 2020

10:07 PM

As Matt Hancock was doing his media round this morning, it was refreshing to hear him finally being questioned about the challenge of false positives. But his response made me worry whether the Health Secretary really knows what a false positive is – or the potential extent of the problem when it comes to detecting coronavirus and the impact of that on decision making.

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