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Yes, and it's already been done for covid. In may, China wanted to test all 11m people in Wuhan, so they used pooled testing: https://www.livescience.com/poole
by rgbrenner 6y ago
Yes, and it's already been done for covid. In may, China wanted to test all 11m people in Wuhan, so they used pooled testing:
https://www.livescience.com/pooled-sampling-covid19-in-wuhan-and-us-cities.html https://www.livescience.com/pooled-sampling-covid19-in-wuhan...
- FuckButtons 6y agoThe algorithm presented in this paper is a significant improvement over what was done in wuhan. In a low infection population it reduces the cost of testing an individual to around $0.75 and can find infected individuals in a single step, without having to do subsequent assays to narrow down which samples tested positive.
- bhickey 6y agoArray testing is an improvement over Dorfman, but this has been widely known for decades. Blood banks regularly use high dimensional arrays for testing. Here they test the hypercube planes in serial instead of parallel, but this increases latency and decreases sensitivity.