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So, if I use the test, I’d like to arrange for a courier or taxi to deliver the pack to the lab instead of using Royal Mail. So I could very easily end up outside the maximum five-day window for the medication’s efficacy. Then there is waiting for a clinician to telephone and a wait to receive the pills. The NHS website states that the test result may take up to three days. In practice this could take two or three days (with rural last-posting times and pesky weekends). The return package is pre-addressed to “NHS Test and Trace Regional Lab” via Royal Mail Tracked 24 hour. SIR – The NHS has told me that, as a vulnerable person, I may be given the new antiviral pills if I test positive for Covid, and has kindly sent me a home PCR test. Surely the cost/benefits of current thinking should be re-evaluated and we should get on with our lives. None the less, the three-fold higher daily deaths from heart disease and cancer receive far less government and media intervention. The number actually dying from (rather than with) Covid is likely to be significantly less than 10 per cent. That’s just 10 per cent of daily deaths being with (not from) Covid, compared to 460 (29 per cent) for heart disease and 450 (28 per cent) for cancer. This compares with approximately 1,600 of us dying each day from any cause. Of people with positive tests, 2,200 (1.1 per cent) go to hospital and, (according to the latest weekly average on January 3) 156 (0.08 per cent) a day sadly die. That’s 10 per cent of the tests undertaken. SIR – The Health Security Agency UK tells us some two million lateral flow and PCR tests are performed each day and just under 200,000 of these are positive for Covid.