The more testing, the more you can control the transmission rate. This is all about the transmission rate (you may have heard "flatten the curve" several hundre

The more testing, the more you can control the transmission rate. This is all about the transmission rate (you may have heard "flatten the curve" several hundred times recently). Quarantines are a sucky but effective way to reduce the transmission rate. But with testing, isolation can be reduced, which is necessary because quarantines will only be tolerated for so long in Western nations.