>Given that it will be at least 6-9 months before an appreciable fraction of the population can be vaccinated, frequent testing still makes a whole lot of sense

>Given that it will be at least 6-9 months before an appreciable fraction of the population can be vaccinated, frequent testing still makes a whole lot of sense. What makes you think we can ramp up production on these faster than that? You'd need a billion of them to test each America once every three months. >As to the effort/expense, you'd think we'd be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, no? Only if the resources used were entirely unrelated, which I doubt. Every public health offical's man-hour should be dedicated to setting up vaccination sites. Every medical manufacturing facility should be making vaccine components and accessories. I very much doubt you could set up mass testing of asymptomatic people without making trade offs regarding resources for mass vaccinations.