[Kizzy]

Originally Posted by Cherie

Senior health officials are facing demands to reveal how much has been spent on millions of inaccurate coronavirus antibody tests, after it emerged that payments had been guaranteed even if the kits failed to work.

that's completely different to saying they KNEW THEY WOULDNT WORK....presumably they were the non negotiable terms of the company offering the tests, and rather than gamble with them not working they gambled with them working rather than doing nothing kizzy

Where did I say I or they ' KNEW THEY WOULDN'T WORK'?

They didn't and dont work that is a fact, they are not fit for purpose,they never were. There has never been any indication that any appropriate test exists.

Kathy Hall, director of Covid-19 testing strategy at the Department for Health and Social Care, revealed last week that the government was working to recoup money paid for the tests “where possible”. Asked iwhether payment was made on the assumption that the devices worked, she said: “Our overall strategy was to secure tests in order to get them validated. That meant ordering minimum volumes in order to secure them. And we wanted to make sure we had the opportunity to do that, so that was the strategy we took, yes.”

A better strategy would have been to wait for a sufficiency accurate test and buy those imo.