How does testing for Covid-19 work?
Marie Culliton, medical scientist and Laboratory Manager at the National Maternity Hospital joins Susan Mitchell on the podcast to explain the differences between the various types of Covid-19 tests that are currently being deployed as well as the sensitivity and specificity of those tests. They also discuss the issue of false negatives and whether people who suspect that they’ve had the virus but showed low level symptoms or were asymptomatic will be able to purchase a test privately at some point.