Why we're failing hard at COVID testing.....and how better testing could give us our lives back.

[hal9000]

The Plan That Could Give Us Our Lives Back

The U.S. has never had enough coronavirus tests. Now a group of epidemiologists, economists, and dreamers is plotting a new strategy to defeat the virus, even before a vaccine is found.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[everysurfer]

You're going to get in trouble with R32 come Monday. This could have fit in a dozen other threads

 

[Woke AF]

thanks, good article.

 

[GromsDad]

The premise of hal's thread doesn't fit with the data from his own state. New Jersey has been testing like crazy hoping to find cases to justify our megalomaniac governor's oppression of the states people and businesses and even with all that testing the number of cases and deaths has fallen off a cliff once the most vulnerable got it and died off. The virus burned itself out like a brushfire.

Here is the latest data from the state of NJ Health Department webpage, Interestingly enough a month ago this data was right out front on their website and now you have to dig to find these charts. Funny how that happened when people started using their own charts to show the governor was out of control.

The Covid brushfire burned itself out by the beginning of June.

 

[hal9000]

Sounds like someone didn’t read the article.

 

[GromsDad]

Looks like someone can't or won't understand charts and graphs.

 

[Woke AF]

Sounds like someone didn’t read the article.

and what happened to ignore gromsdildo

 

[GromsDad]

You guys should ignore everyone who paints your stupid arguments into a corner. Just stay in your echo chamber and hide from anyone who dares challenge your viewpoint.

 

[hal9000]

You're going to get in trouble with R32 come Monday. This could have fit in a dozen other threads

I don’t know, this article is discussing what SHOULD be a whole new phase of testing.We’re not anywhere near doing enough testing and this article discusses the way out of that.

Techniques such as pooling PCR tests could save time and money while increasing testing capacity 10-50-fold. New sequencing techniques could increase capacity and allow an additional 1 million tests per day. Regulatory hurdles are placing an immense burden on the release of new antigen testing technologies, and while I’m not too keen on some of the limits of detection of the strip tests, they’re still better than our current capacity. The antigen tests should be approved for wide use.

It can take up to 14 days to get test results back, which negates the value of getting the test. Are you going to sit home for 14 days and wait for the results? Are you going to go out and potentially infect others? We really need to do better than we are currently. Long waits, supply-chain problems, regulatory burdens, and lack of federal coordination of a testing program are stifling our efforts to recover.

The main thesis of the article is an important one. We need to increase testing capacity if we want to get back to normal. This requires innovation an implementation of rapid tests and requires the ability to test everyone every day. Back in April or March there was promise of new rapid tests from Abbot that were supposed to take only 15 minutes. What ever happened to all the innovation that was supposed to happen back then? It seems to have fizzled, along with our will to mount any coordinated effort to fight the virus and get back to normal.

 

[everysurfer]

I don’t know, this article is discussing what SHOULD be a whole new phase of testing.We’re not anywhere near doing enough testing and this article discusses the way out of that.

Techniques such as pooling PCR tests could save time and money while increasing testing capacity 10-50-fold. New sequencing techniques could increase capacity and allow an additional 1 million tests per day. Regulatory hurdles are placing an immense burden on the release of new antigen testing technologies, and while I’m not too keen on some of the limits of detection of the strip tests, they’re still better than our current capacity. The antigen tests should be approved for wide use.

It can take up to 14 days to get test results back, which negates the value of getting the test. Are you going to sit home for 14 days and wait for the results? Are you going to go out and potentially infect others? We really need to do better than we are currently. Long waits, supply-chain problems, regulatory burdens, and lack of federal coordination of a testing program are stifling our efforts to recover.

The main thesis of the article is an important one. We need to increase testing capacity if we want to get back to normal. This requires innovation an implementation of rapid tests and requires the ability to test everyone every day. Back in April or March there was promise of new rapid tests from Abbot that were supposed to take only 15 minutes. What ever happened to all the innovation that was supposed to happen back then? It seems to have fizzled, along with our will to mount any coordinated effort to fight the virus and get back to normal.

Easily could have gone in official covid thread, or administration covid thread.

GromsDad will be dancing on your banned was grave

 

[hal9000]

Easily could have gone in official covid thread, or administration covid thread.

GromsDad will be dancing on your banned was grave

meanwhile VM has carte blanche to start threads about Hillar’s cackling and the color of people’s genitals.

 

[everysurfer]

meanwhile VM has carte blanche to start threads about Hillar’s cackling and the color of people’s genitals.

Yup, his threads are pointless but rare

 

[kidfury]

You guys should ignore everyone who paints your stupid arguments into a corner. Just stay in your echo chamber and hide from anyone who dares challenge your viewpoint.

What is your viewpoint? Oh right, trump and Republicans can do no wrong.

 

[mundus]

VM and his trolls seems to be above the law around here.

 

[hal9000]

I’m not sure I’d put VM and his trolls threads in the “rare” category.

 

[hal9000]

https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1298756254177918980

‎Fresh Air on Apple Podcasts

‎Arts · 2024

podcasts.apple.com

 

[hal9000]

And here’s the other one.




and as usual......Dummy gets receipts pulled on him and then ghosts.

 

[Driftcoast]

New Jersey has been testing like crazy hoping to find cases to justify our megalomaniac governor's oppression of the states people and businesses and even with all that testing the number of cases and deaths has fallen off a cliff once the most vulnerable got it and died off. The virus burned itself out like a brushfire.

The testing isn't for justifying anything,. it is so they can find the carriers/sick people and isolate them. Bet they are testing some people more than once.

 

[Autoprax]

Gross really has problems with cause and effect relationships.

Weird.

 

[hal9000]

The testing isn't for justifying anything,. it is so they can find the carriers/sick people and isolate them. Bet they are testing some people more than once.

stop trying to explain scientific concepts to unwilling participants. Just make the information available and he can choose whether or not to read it.