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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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