Having easy, open access to testing kits would be helpful, but unfortunately it's not feasible: the test kits are already in short supply, and it would be impos

Having easy, open access to testing kits would be helpful, but unfortunately it's not feasible: the test kits are already in short supply, and it would be impossible within the next few months to scale up to providing 300 million tests per day or even per week, and that would be for the US alone. There will almost certainly be a shortage of the reagents needed for quite some time. Only 4 states plus the CDC presently have the ability to test for Covid-19 in centralized testing centers: https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-coronovirus-test.html https://www.livescience.com/covid-19-coronovirus-test.html So we are far, far, far away from deploying test kits to individual households. Furthermore, a very large percentage of the population would a) refuse to take the test on a regular basis, and b) refuse to self-report in the event of a positive test, because many people are belligerent about quarantine. If we already had a massive supply of the necessary reagents, and the ability to quickly scale up manufacturing, your approach might work. But given current constraints, it's unlikely. I wonder how microfluidics might some day help to deploy the kind of household-level testing you are wishing for. Actually, if there's any hope for your solution, it's probably through this guy's lab + multiple industry partners, or something similar: https://www.bioanalysis-zone.com/2020/01/02/microfluidic-device-identify-viruses/ https://www.bioanalysis-zone.com/2020/01/02/microfluidic-dev...