Oireachtas Joint and Select Committees

Wednesday, 23 September 2020

Special Committee on Covid-19 Response

Covid-19: Strategic Options for Government Plan to Eliminate Community Transmission

Dr. Samuel McConkey:

My view is that they are both really good ideas. There are several teams, including some in RCSI, trying to validate whether pool testing is accurate enough to be useful. It may be useful for the HIQA efficacy assessment group to do a worldwide search of the data on both of those.