10-07-2020, 05:31 PM
(10-07-2020, 03:25 PM)tomh009 Wrote:(10-07-2020, 12:38 PM)ijmorlan Wrote: Appointments are better than waiting in line. Waiting in line is just a pointless waste of time. The one thing I will say for it is that the people who get tested are the ones who feel it’s important enough to wait in line, rather than the ones who click the button before everybody else does.
Either way, it’s clear a massive expansion of testing capacity is needed. It should be more or less on demand; and they should be tracking the extent to which people aren’t able to get tested.
I don't disagree about the need for more testing capacity. But, that in itself would not help bring the situation under control. We are still averaging only about 1% positivity in the region, so the virus is unlikely to be massively rampant among untested people (the positivity was far higher in the spring).
What I would rather invest in, right now, would be a big expansion of the tracking and tracing capability, as that can help bring this thing under control.
Yup. Testing is only one part of a complete breakfast. Tracing and isolating is also needed to avoid lockdowns.