August 04, 2020

Radical Shift In COVID-19 Testing Needed To Reopen Schools And Businesses, Researchers Say-Science Magazine

Even as the United States ramped up coronavirus testing from about 100,000 per week in mid-March to more than 5 million per week in late July, the country fell further behind in stemming the spread of the virus. Now, diagnostics experts, public health officials, and epidemiologists are calling for a radical shift in testing strategy: away from diagnosing people who have symptoms or were exposed and toward screening whole populations using faster, cheaper, sometimes less accurate tests. Science Magazine, 08/03/2020