Is it time to stop testing children for Covid?
As chaos in schools reaches new heights – with more children off with Covid than ever before in the omicron wave – The Medical Minefield team speak to the expert who says testing children is doing more harm than good. Dr Allyson Pollock, clinical professor of public health at Newcastle University, explains why letting the virus spread freely in primary schools does not pose the risk it once did. Meanwhile, we speak to the concerned father who details just how traumatic swabbing young children can be- and the lengths he must go to prevent the test from causing his two year-old daughter an injury.
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