FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test

Re:FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test by inamberclad on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @01:58PM (#25446807)

Nah, bundle up tests in 30 day increments. 300 million tests a day becomes 10 million boxes a day. Large, but not impossible.

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Re:FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test by abfan1127 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:05PM (#25446908)

lots of ways to optimize, but the scale is still immense.

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Re:FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test by pmoriarty on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:21PM (#25447175)

We already manufacture and distribute paper products on an immense scale even without it being a national (or global) emergency.

Again, according to that TWiV episode, making the tests is not much more complicated than just printing some antibodies on pieces of paper.

It could definitely be done, we just need the will to do it.

A Manhattan Project for testing could have saved hundreds of thousands of lives and probably trillions of dollars.

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Re:FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test by abfan1127 on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:23PM (#25447216)

I missed the link to the TWiV episode. do you have it?

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Re:FDA authorizes rapid, at-home coronavirus test by pmoriarty on Wednesday December 16, 2020 @02:34PM (#25447378)

6'20" in to episode 640:

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