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Testing when? When you have symptoms? Too late. 330 million people testing weekly? Not possible. There is no realistic way to mass test everyone in a meanin
by IanDrake 6y ago
Testing when?
When you have symptoms? Too late.
330 million people testing weekly? Not possible.
There is no realistic way to mass test everyone in a meaningful way.
- hebrox 6y agoWe can test people who care for the elderly, so that people in that age group can be protected. We can tests a classroom weekly with one test. If it's positive, come back in three weeks, if not hear the parents cheer. We can let companies be responsible for having people tested, if they want people in the office. Once scaled up, we can have restaurants, bars even festivals be full of people, that the owner/organizers tested.
- standardUser 6y ago"When you have symptoms? Too late." The goal has never been to bring the transmission rate down to zero. If we could quickly test everyone at the onset of symptoms, then trace and test anyone likely to have been exposed to the virus by that symptomatic individual, we could bring the transmission rate down considerably. It's been done in other countries. Add in some other precautions, like automatic temperate checks, and the transmission rate can be lowered even further. Low enough? Dunno, but lockdowns can't last forever and our healthcare capacity is getting better by the day.
- agarden 6y agoHow much money would it take to make testing everyone a realistic possibility? How much money are we losing by just shutting everything down? Which one costs more?
- IanDrake 6y agoI'm not sure it's a function of money, probably more likely capacity and time to create capacity.