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Re:We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day by cheriot on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @07:22PM (#22808547)
This would be HUGE. Not only has the testing capacity in America been maxed out, but the % of positive results has been more than 20% and trending upward. In order to quarantine effectively (read: end the shut down) we need to test the family, coworkers, and contacts of every positive result.
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Re:We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day by s_y_n_t_a_x on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @09:09PM (#22809170)
Testing has been ramping up https://covidtracking.com/data/us-daily
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Re:We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day by phantom0308 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @01:22AM (#22810299)
It's plateaued and has been hovering around 100k per day for 2 weeks (outside California clearing its backlog on 4/4). The White House promised 27M by 3/31 and we were at 1M. It doesn't look like it's ramping up.
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Re:We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day by cyrux004 on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @02:45AM (#22810588)
I WA we were doing around 7k-8k tests/day 2 weeks back, now its between 4-5k
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Re:We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day by cheriot on Tuesday April 07, 2020 @10:33PM (#22809514)
That's where I've been getting data. We have a long way to go.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Y9_ZrMBhhVLg2xQHtBCc...

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Re:We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day by ejstronge on Wednesday April 08, 2020 @06:40AM (#22811712)
Why do you state that our testing capacity has been maxed out? My understanding is that factors like the availability of swabs and the availability of medical personnel to administer tests are a bigger bottleneck than qPCR machines.
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Re:We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day by cheriot on Thursday April 09, 2020 @01:20AM (#22820020)
I don't have any insight into the why. Only that the growth rate in tests per day has slowed to an almost stagnant level.
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Re:We’re working on 1M Covid-19 testing capacity per day by ejstronge on Friday April 10, 2020 @07:37AM (#22831963)
At least anecdotally, it doesn’t seem that we’re hitting our full testing potential. I think adding in a new technique would only exacerbate the mismatch between test supply and test utilization.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01068-3

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