Government faces legal action over £75m contract for Covid-19 antibody tests
The judicial review proceedings, issued by the Good Law Project, say the contract to purchase the AbC-19 Rapid Tests was signed without a public tender and without evaluating the accuracy of the test, raising serious concerns about the maladministration of public funds.
Source:
British Medical Journal
SPS commentary:
A study published in the BMJ found that the AbC-19 Rapid Test had a positive predictive value of 81.7% for a population with a 10% prevalence of previous infection; suggesting around one in 5 tests would be a false positive. A related editorial notes these findings add to mounting evidence that SARS-CoV-2 seroprevalence studies are limited in their ability to correctly identify people who have and have not been infected, and expresses concern about the potential for considerable societal harm.