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Does anyone have any details about how they were tested? It’s actually easier to test at scale when infections are rare: If you only expect something like 0.00
by PragmaticPulp 5y ago
Does anyone have any details about how they were tested?
It’s actually easier to test at scale when infections are rare: If you only expect something like 0.001% of tests to be positive, you can start combining 1000s of samples into batches to test at once, only narrowing into individual tests if a batch shows positive results.
This can shave orders of magnitude off of the number of tests that need to be run. Of course, actually collecting samples from 11M people in a week (if we are to believe the government-provided statistics) is still a massive logistical achievement.