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EXC: A leaked report on Liverpool's mass testing pilot shows it failed to reach the city's poorest residents
The richest people got almost TWICE as many lateral flow tests as the poorest - and the problem was "bigger and more consistent" for PCR
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-liverpool-mass-testing-pilot-not-reaching-citys-poorest-people-leaked-documents-show-12158317
The richest people got almost TWICE as many lateral flow tests as the poorest - and the problem was "bigger and more consistent" for PCR
https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-liverpool-mass-testing-pilot-not-reaching-citys-poorest-people-leaked-documents-show-12158317
Barriers to tests included poverty, misinformation, mistrust of the government and - crucially - a lack of digital skills or access to digital technology
The report asked: "What happens if a person doesn’t have a smartphone or email address?" But did not give an answer
The report asked: "What happens if a person doesn’t have a smartphone or email address?" But did not give an answer
Hard to know what to say to this
In its response to my story, PHE said: "An evaluation of our Liverpool pilot will inform the potential rollout of whole town or city testing to other areas"
Meanwhile, in the real world, the roll-out continues apace https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-liverpool-mass-testing-pilot-not-reaching-citys-poorest-people-leaked-documents-show-12158317
In its response to my story, PHE said: "An evaluation of our Liverpool pilot will inform the potential rollout of whole town or city testing to other areas"
Meanwhile, in the real world, the roll-out continues apace https://news.sky.com/story/covid-19-liverpool-mass-testing-pilot-not-reaching-citys-poorest-people-leaked-documents-show-12158317
And then there's this. No wonder people in Liverpool were confused and mistrustful https://twitter.com/angelaraffle/status/1337500715703554050
Right. Time to log off. Before I go, some more slides from the Liverpool report
1. Initial response to the pilot
1. Initial response to the pilot
2. Barriers to testing (the real world influence of the false positive conspiracists makes me so cross)
3. Barriers to testing part II. Mistrust and financial worries the key themes here, as well as a sense that covid isn't really that important
