When the government’s Operation Moonshot plans for mass testing of the population for Covid-19 were first revealed, the intention was to use that as the route out of perpetual cycles of lockdown.
It was described as a £100bn-plus endeavour, with resources likened to the Manhattan Project, the top-secret wartime endeavour led by the US to develop a nuclear bomb.
By early 2021, 10m quick-result tests a day would be taken by the British public. People would get tests with their sports tickets, swab on the way to school andbe tested with the same morning monotony as brushing their teeth.
It may have seemed fanciful but at the time it was grasped with both hands by the prime minister as the only way to return to normal life.
But then another way out emerged – multiple vaccines were proved to be effective and safe. Now the mass vaccination programme appears a much less far-fetched way out of the crisis to the outside observer. So why continue with grand plans of mass testing?
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