This morning.
The first swab at a drive-thru rona test centre opened earlier at Dubln Airport and operated by private healthcare company Rocdoc, which offers the service to people who have not been referred by a GP.
A walk-in test centre will open next week, and they will allow Dublin Airport to process up to 12,000 tests per day in the run up to Christmas.
You give them money.
They stick a thing up your nose.
Win/win.
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let the morket decide :)
kerrrrching!
Is that Tony Murphy, Fingal Councillor?
public/free/bit sketchy/likely catch it standing in line.
“Testing is free to all eligible New Yorkers as ordered by a health care provider or by calling the NYS COVID-19 hotline at 1-888-364-3065.
If you go to a test site run by New York State, there is never any charge for your test.”
https://coronavirus.health.ny.gov/covid-19-testing
private/stop by docs office for rapid test is about 85-100 bucks this morning.
So, you don’t actually need this to fly though yeah?
Is it just for people who want it or does it give less quarantine time in the country your visiting or what?
Apart from the fact it is a PCR test which in low incidence populations is probably about the same chance as rolling a dice, how long does it take for the result to come back?
What is the point of being told you are positive when you are on a plane to somewhere?
Fake News
Rolling a specific number on a dice is 16⅔ %.
PCR tests in low incidence populations have never shown 16⅔ % positives.
In Ireland for most of July testing was showing <0.3% positives.
The (fake) positive rate is sitting between 1 and 5 % so where is your 0.03 coming from?
I didn’t say 0.03.
If you look at the total positive rate (both true-positives and false-positives) in Ireland in July it sat between 0.2 and 0.3%.
The false-positive rate cannot be higher than the total positive rate.
The current positive rate is 3.8%
https://covid19ireland-geohive.hub.arcgis.com/pages/hospitals-icu–testing
Regardless of the efficacy of PCR tests
Is there any point to getting this done? Do you have less quarantine on the other side etc?
Back in my day it wasn’t:
”You give them money.
They stick a thing up your nose.”
After money changed hands you’d have to stick whatever you purchased up your own nose.
People these days want everything done for them!
12,000 tests a day
At €150 buckaroo banzais a pop
I’m going to need more fingers for this one
indeed, I wonder who’s mates with whom this time?
(mates, but not mates mates if u know what I mean)
meanwhile McEntee might be closely examining the subframe of the next 46A imminently….
https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/politics/tanaiste-says-he-did-not-know-names-of-judges-who-applied-for-supreme-court-role-given-to-seamus-woulfe-39766483.html
Good luck to them.
I presume they chose the airport because of the big empty car parks – a quick look at Cork Airport’s website shows not a single flight leaving or arriving today and only one tomorrow.
Good luck to them.
But if so many HSE test sites were left empty why will private succeed ?
Testing at the airport gives the impression that you do a quick test before your flight and then depart the country. However, currently it takes at least 24 hours to get the results – so really, for departing passengers the test centre could be located anywhere. Dublin city centre, for example, might be more useful.
Some countries – like Greece – need passengers to already have passed a Covid test before they arrive. Its not about quarantining. If you are positive, you don’t get in. If you are negative, you can arrive and no quarantining is required.