Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by bluGill on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @01:42PM
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How do you start testing with 100x the number of tests? You have to figure out how to make a test this takes time in itself. The disease is only a few months old so it isn't like there was time to prepare. This is a very hard supply management problem. Don't forget to account for tests that fail quality control, something that happens but can't be predicted.
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Re:Italy is extending its coronavirus quarantine measures to...
by ALittleLight on Tuesday March 10, 2020 @02:44PM
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South Korea has done almost 4k tests per million people. Guangdong in China has done 3k per million. The US has done 5 tests per million. That's three orders of magnitude worse than China or South Korea. Explanations like "This is a hard problem" or "There wasn't enough time" are simply unacceptable given that other countries are doing dramatically better.
https://www.businessinsider.com/coronavirus-testing-covid-19...