> Cheap mass testing at home, regularly, for the whole family. Even with less sensitive quick tests it should be possible to suppress ~50% of new transmissions

> Cheap mass testing at home, regularly, for the whole family. Even with less sensitive quick tests it should be possible to suppress ~50% of new transmissions this way, which could bring case numbers down to traceable levels in 1-2 months. I agree it's a good idea, but doubt that it would bring case numbers "down to traceable levels"...we know that the vast majority of transmission (>70%) is happening in the home, and the vast majority of interactions (>90%) don't produce more than a single infection. You essentially have to catch the connecting edges on a sparsely connected graph -- you don't have to miss very many for the problem to be unsolvable. I do think it would go a long way to making life more normal. It's completely idiotic that we're killing restaurants (for example) when we could be making mandatory rapid testing a pre-requisite to indoor dining, instead. The same goes for nursing home and hospital staff -- nosocomial infection has been a huge problem, and most fatalities are out of nursing homes. I get why you don't want to depend entirely on quick tests that have an elevated false-negative rate, but when it takes days to get back a PCR result, it's useless for screening staff.