In Isreal, it's illegal to get genetic testing done

Yay, Gattaca.

I'm sure this won't be abused by law enforcement. Nope.

Already widely used in the western world, glad we're catching up. This will save lives, hopefully lessen strain on the NHS, reduce waiting times, and reduce the misery of kids silently suffering without proper support.

Goes without saying, but this data should remain with the NHS, and the only time it should leave is when appropriately anonymised for medical research purposes (which already happens, the NHS helps a shit load of international researchers).

Well parental consent to this is going to be interesting, given the father only gets it if the name is on the birth certificate (so marrital state is relevant) and that wouldn't happen for several weeks. So really the mother gets to decide...so paternity fraud is going be forefront of discussions.

Sounds like they need to speed up the test, if it takes 10 years then they won’t be babies anymore by the time they get results.

Thank god. Paternity fraud finally not so easy.

One of the things we did during the pandemic was significantly scale up or ability to sequence genomes. We were literally watching the virus evolve near real-time because a large chunk of samples could be sequenced and processed.

While they're are obviously data privacy concerns, for which the UK has a fairly long history of legislating for, having a full sequence for every newborn could allow for all sorts of cheaper early interventions. I'm sure the dataset would also be very useful for researchers as well.