conclusion: this needs tested, may do more harm than good,  and cannot be assumed to ‘work’

Government announcement
https://www.gov.uk/government/news/asymptomatic-testing-to-be-rolled-out-across-the-country-starting-this-week

including “With the expansion of asymptomatic testing for those unable to work from home, added to our comprehensive COVID-Secure guidance, we can keep our economy on the move while giving individuals in key sectors complete confidence that their workplace is safe.”

White House outbreak: https://khn.org/news/white-house-testing-regimen-did-not-protect-the-president/

Pattern of viral load
https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lanmic/article/PIIS2666-5247(20)30172-5/fulltext

Living review of asymptomatic covid-19 transmission https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.09.01.20135194v1

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32960881/

Infectiousness vs finding infection https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0163445320304497

BMJ editorial on risks of asymptomatic infection https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4851#ref-16

Iceland on asymptomatic screening rates
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4529

BMJ overview of issues with screening (Deeks, Raffle, Gill) https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/01/12/covid-19-government-must-urgently-rethink-lateral-flow-test-roll-out/

Slovakia mass screening https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(20)30948-8/fulltext

Liverpool testing evaluation

Click to access Liverpool,Community,Testing,Pilot,Interim,Evaluation.pdf

PHE/Porton Down evaluation of lateral flow tests
https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2020-11-11-oxford-university-and-phe-confirm-lateral-flow-tests-show-high-specificity-and-are

Inaccuracy of student testing
https://www.bmj.com/content/371/bmj.m4941.full