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Re:NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitti... by Marsymars on Monday May 11, 2020 @10:33PM (#23149993)
FWIW my province of 4.4 million is stalled on tests being run because it's run out of additional symptomatic people to test at around 30 tests per 1k per 30 days, even though testing capacity is about double that, and still increasing.
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Re:NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitti... by mirimir on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:56PM (#23150457)
Why not start testing randomly chosen asymptomatic people?
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Re:NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitti... by Marsymars on Tuesday May 12, 2020 @11:45AM (#23155249)
They did this week, but it has some limitations:

1. You can't actually randomly choose people, so it's being done on a fist-come, first-serve basis. 2. Testing all asymptomatic people on any regular basis would take orders of magnitude more tests, so it's not useful as a containment measure, just as a data-collection measure.

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