The experts agree on one thing. When not to book an appointment for a quick test.
The Danish test strategy is today being expanded with rapid testing.
Yesterday, Falck made an agreement with the state to create facilities as soon as possible that allow 50,000 citizens to get an antigen test every day without booking time or pulling money out of their pockets.
They are not as safe as the PCR tests that are performed in the state’s test centers, but the answer is given after only 15 minutes.
So it is a trade-off of short response time to high precision, but when does it really make sense to use them?
The health authorities have not yet put forward their recommendations, so we have asked three experts what opportunities and pitfalls they believe the rapid tests create.
On several points, they disagree on how good an idea it is to use them, and the authorities therefore have an important communication task ahead of them.
– There is a great need for a very detailed explanation to all of us about how we should use the two test options, says epidemiologist Viggo Andreasen.
