Originally Posted by
Radgirl
Not that simple Melax. The antibody test shows if you have had it. Probably only 10-15% of the population, and not all get antibodies, so would stop over 90% flying. We can do PCR - the swabs - but they take 4 hours and have a false negative rate of 40%...So they wont keep crew or other passengers safe
As we reopen hospital we plan to enforce 10-14 days quarantine, then do aquestionnaire, then a PCR swab, and then 2 days later admit, check temperature and examine the chest. All that will only give 97.5% pickup although most of the remaining 2.5% will probably not be that infectious....However we doctors and nurses will still wear full PPE
So even if you could get people to quarantine for 2 weeks and had somewhere to do the tests it still wont be foolproof......I dont see how you canmatch the level of safety we will apply to hospitals where patients are under pressure to take a risk for their cancer or hernia.
The solutions don't have to be foolproof do they? I mean flying a plane isn't foolproof. We just have to have sufficient measures to significantly manage the risk.