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The hard part is to do 10K tests per day like the South Koreans did to successfully contain the spread of covid-19 (or 60K tests per day since the USA have 6 ti
by duchenne 7y ago
The hard part is to do 10K tests per day like the South Koreans did to successfully contain the spread of covid-19 (or 60K tests per day since the USA have 6 times the Korean population).
This would include gathering saliva samples and bringing them to the PCR machine in a safe way.
- _delirium 7y agoNew York State is at that level of testing per-capita, although a bit belatedly: it tested 7500 people between the Wed 3/18 and Thu 3/19 updates. If all states were testing at that per-capita rate, there would be about 125k tests per day nationwide.