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UK flies Coronavirus swabs to US for testing.
The government has admitted sending about 50,000 coronavirus tests to the US last week for processing after "operational issues" in UK labs. The Department of Health said sending swabs abroad is among the contingencies to deal with "teething problems". The samples were airlifted to the US in chartered flights from Stansted Airport, the Sunday Telegraph said. Results will be validated in the UK and sent to patients as soon as possible. A spokeswoman for the Department of… (www.bbc.com) さらに...
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"Results will be validated in the UK ..." obviously not , or they wouldn't have been sent to the US in the first place. What might be true is that *positive* test results will be rechecked in the UK. If the tests themselves have a low false negative rate then this strategy is a reasonable one. However, many of these Covid-19 test do have a disturbingly high false negative rate.
