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This can't be the only option for testing. Korea has tested hundreds of thousands of people so far. By far the largest number of any country, including China. S
by m0zg 7y ago
This can't be the only option for testing. Korea has tested hundreds of thousands of people so far. By far the largest number of any country, including China. Such high throughput does not seem achievable with these machines unless you already have a ton of them, and all the reagents are stockpiled.
https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/ https://www.worldometers.info/coronavirus/covid-19-testing/
Everyone else seems fairly low throughput, with the US being on the "ridiculously low" end of that spectrum if you consider tests per million of population.
- deng 7y agoSK does 10.000 tests per day with test kits which they could quickly produce but which involve a lot of manual steps and hence man power. You could replace all that with 2.5 of these huge Roche machines. So for really high throughput you absolutely need those huge machines, everything else simply does not scale. Of course you need a stockpile of reagents, but manual test kits need these as well and AFAIK those are fairly standard.