Knitted News08.01.22 20:23 V. Bishvat Tishpev
(Photo: Olivia Fitoussi / Flash 90)
Data on the effectiveness of antigen tests are revealed tonight (Saturday) by the Ministry of Defense, and it is found that antigen tests miss about half of those infected. This figure joins the concern in the health system that the change in the outline of the tests will impair the preparation for the admission of critically ill patients.
The full data
If the goal is to locate verified and isolate, it is not certain that the data we now see indicate that this goal is at all achievable. In the Director of Defense research, they took the 305 antigen tests performed this week by the sampling companies, and these are the data they segmented:
The percentage verified in institutional antigen tests is only 1.8%. This is far from the figure in the PCR tests.
Corona testing complex in Jerusalem (Photo: Olivia Fitoussi / Flash 90)
Not only that, but the percentage of vertebrates that were missed on the antigen, that is, came out negative on the antigen but were later found in the PCR tests to be positive – stands at 47%.
And this is not the only figure, the opposite figure, ie those who came out positive in antigen but negative in PCR – stands at 37%. And in other words, the institutional antigen tests – not even the home ones – are inaccurate and miss both positive and negative.
This figure leads to another matter: people admiring the PCR complexes sharply criticize the government and say that it was right to re-regulate the testing policy. The decision to send only those aged 60 and over for PCR tests will probably distort the morbidity data and mainly means that they will work 20 times less than their capabilities. Instead of the 200,000 subjects sampled, the samples dropped to around 12,000.
The Ministry of Health says that in order for the home test to be more reliable, the throat must also be checked.
(Photo: Emil Salem Flash 90)
The Cabinet meeting and the Corona Cabinet will convene
In addition, there are government ministers who are dissatisfied with the current Omicron policy, whether in the context of the tests, or in the context of the compensation that is not given to any industry in the economy. Tomorrow at the cabinet meeting at the request of Minister Elkin there will be a comprehensive review of the policy. On Tuesday, the Corona cabinet will also convene to try to look a little ahead through the fog, this is 3 weeks after it last convened.
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