Media Update, page-715

Always good to read your thoughts FinFree.
Personally, I would rather have a national defence contract than the NSW HSC student contract. Well done AT1.

As I understand it, here can be no Rapid tests without PCR. And actually, vice versa.
Italy spammed these Rapid tests and it did not stop their second wave.
It doesn't mean they are bad. You cannot win a game of football without both forward players and defensive players.

The tests work hand in hand
Professor Andrea Crisanti of the University of Padua
“If your objective is to screen a community to know if transmission is there, fine,” said Crisanti. However, he said that to halt transmission, rapid tests must be complemented by the accuracy of PCR tests, along with surveillance tools and stay-at-home orders.

However important sectors of society can't fully function without rapid testing.
Professor Sergio Abrignani of the University of Milan, who co-authored a letter with some of Italy's leading scientists in September calling for their widespread use, conceded that they were not an overall solution. “But there are practical situations where the antigen test has no alternative,” he told AFP. “For example, when I am boarding a train or a ship and want to reduce the risk. The molecular test takes too long to give me an answer.

As per the article I posted yesterday regards homeless people ( there are over 112,000 in Australia at the moment ) There really is no other proper way to certain mobile groups of people ( fly-in-fly out workers, travelling contractors, aged care, cruise ships )

When done twice a week, as effective as PCR
A longitudinal study co-authored by UMass Medical School researchers as part of the National Institutes of Health’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics (RADx) initiative reported that PCR testing for SARS-CoV-2 and rapid antigen testing were equally effective in detecting infection when tests were given at least twice per week.