Re:NY launches live dashboard of each regions progress hitti...
by mirimir on Monday May 11, 2020 @11:56PM
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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
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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.