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Testing everyone every day seems unrealistic in the near term. New York's test latency is up to 7 days, which is already beyond the median time for symptoms to
by sp332 6y ago
Testing everyone every day seems unrealistic in the near term. New York's test latency is up to 7 days, which is already beyond the median time for symptoms to appear. Contact tracing would let potentially-affected people quarantine and wait for their test results while other people keep going out. Increasing the number of tests quickly would probably make the latency longer.
- tylerhou 6y agoThe test described in the podcast give results back nearly instantly. They are just less sensitive than currently approved tests, but according to the podcast that doesn't matter too much for various reasons.