The Government of Mexico should stop doing rapid COVID-19 tests and PCR tests Massively, Andreu Comas, professor and researcher at the Health Sciences Research Center of the Autonomous University of San Luis Potosi, considered this Thursday.
“We have to stop doing (rapid) antigen tests. Today the rate of false negatives is enormous and they are giving a false security “, indicated in the EF Meet Point Virtual Forum ‘Third wave COVID what’s next? what do we do?’.
Comas pointed out that the government should allow massive PCR tests and with them carry out sentinel surveillance.
“Establish a surveillance, sampling, sentinel system around the schools. Not sentinel sampling to see how the national epidemic is going. No, a sentinel sampling through schools to (…) detect asymptomatic outbreaks that may occur and do something that has never been done in our country, which is to cut the chain of transmission, “he said.
The expert also commented that the COVID pandemic has not had control in the country due to the Government’s anti-scientific policies. And the third wave is the best example, he said.
“Why did this third wave start? For him international tourism that entered without any PCR testMexico is one of the few countries that does not ask for it ”, he indicated.
Without the vaccination that has been achieved so far, the impact of this would have been harsher, Comas said.
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