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“We need to change the whole script of what it means to test people,” he says. “In our country, we have always assumed that testing belongs in the clinical sphere, in the diagnostic sphere, and has to be run by laboratories or diagnosticians. The result is that we have a system for coronavirus testing…which is flailing, with raging outbreaks occurring.” What the country needs instead are rapid tests, widely deployed, so that infectious individuals can be readily self-identified and isolated, breaking the chain of transmission.
To do that, Mina says, everyone must be tested, every couple of days, with $1, paper-based, at-home tests that are as easy to distribute and use as a pregnancy test: wake up in the morning, add saliva or nasal mucou
originally posted by: puzzled2
a reply to: xuenchen
too many false negatives? right now you have 100% walk out the door and spread it. Until you are sick enough to consider having it, then wait multiple days for a test result.
So if it is caught early and 50% fewer people go out spreading it why is that not a good thing?
People wear a mask to protect others in case they have it, that won't change.
But getting to isolate days earlier is a bad thing?
originally posted by: puzzled2
To do that, Mina says, everyone must be tested, every couple of days, with $1, paper-based, at-home tests that are as easy to distribute and use as a pregnancy test:
Dr. Herrera gives a demo of their simple test that requires a simple nasal swab, plastic tube, a paper strip, and no additional processing. He also discusses how tests like this could be distributed and utilized to quickly curtail the spread of COVID-19. (This video was recorded August 12, 2020).