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Looks like we're testing 10000 a day on weekdays, and over 5000 on weekends. I find it difficult to believe with all that testing going on that no one is reser

• ceejayoz 7y ago
  Locally (upstate NY) per our pediatrician they're only testing people with symptoms bad enough to put them at risk of hospitalization. We're still very short.
  • lukeschlather 7y ago
    Isn't that what you would expect any clinician to say, even if they were doing sampling? They're not going to use people asking for tests, they're going to select a group of people at random from the general population and invite them to be tested. Everyone else who has no symptoms they're going to politely say they're not testing people with no symptoms.
    • ceejayoz 7y ago
      The point is that tests are still in extremely short supply, at least around here.
• KaiserPro 7y ago
  New york has tested ~478k people[1] Bearing in mind that most of that came within the last 4 weeks, its not hard to imagine that it'd be possible to put aside 1000 a week for proper modelling. After all it would make much more accurate models, which would allow better allocation of resources. [1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_testing