Re:Show HN: A Covid-19 testing location site that a group of...
by epistasis on Sunday March 22, 2020 @09:46AM
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We are going to need to massively scale up that testing; per capita tests is not a terribly relevant metric. The best measure is: can we test everybody who needs it?
All around the country, many (most?) people with symptoms are being denied any form of testing. We need to go beyond that to massive testing of even asymptomatic people that have come into contact with people who have tested positive.
The healthcare workers are thinking about how to best help the people under their care, with severely limited resources. And for them, testing doesn't matter unless it changes treatment. But there are other reasons to test.
What the rest of our leaders need to be thinning is how to engage a strategy to contain the broader spread and let people return to normal life, safely, as soon as possible.
South Korea has shown us one way, massive testing:
All around the country, many (most?) people with symptoms are being denied any form of testing. We need to go beyond that to massive testing of even asymptomatic people that have come into contact with people who have tested positive.
The healthcare workers are thinking about how to best help the people under their care, with severely limited resources. And for them, testing doesn't matter unless it changes treatment. But there are other reasons to test.
What the rest of our leaders need to be thinning is how to engage a strategy to contain the broader spread and let people return to normal life, safely, as soon as possible.
South Korea has shown us one way, massive testing:
https://twitter.com/trvrb/status/1240444836982878213?s=21
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-health-coronavirus-testin...
The other ways or get there will be some sort of antiviral treatment or vaccine, but those will not be fast.