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A comment on Ask HN: Can we collectively build a C19 test location site?.

Re:Ask HN: Can we collectively build a C19 test location site? by gus_massa on Saturday March 14, 2020 @05:17PM (#22578774)
You are trying to help, but you will get a lot of false positives, and it will cause more problems.

Lot of test are useful if you can vaccine all the people that meet the (false) positives cases, and all the people that meet the people that meet the (false) positives. This is a vaccination rings https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ring_vaccination but there are no vaccines for now.

Another possibility is to quarantine all that people for two weeks just in case, but if someone disagree you must convince the police to enforce that, and hopefully the police is following the advice of the CDC and want an official test.

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Re:Ask HN: Can we collectively build a C19 test location site? by AndrewKemendo on Saturday March 14, 2020 @05:18PM (#22578790)
I'm not doing the testing. Simply creating a place people can go to find out where to get tested.

Can't know if you should be quarantined if you don't get tested.

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