Its not the stupidest idea I've seen for sure but IIRC the cheap/fast tests
right now are only like 80% accurate. I guess its better than nothing but not
by a lot. Even if it were, say $1/test that would be a big cost for a school
with hundreds of students to test on a daily basis.
I'm nervous of Russia's release of a vaccine. It'll be interesting to see what
happens. I suspect China is right behind and will be releasing something in a
month or two.
-Curt
On Wednesday, August 12, 2020, 12:22:23 PM EDT, Andrew Strasfogel via
Mercedes <mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote:
Cheap, frequent COVID tests could be ‘akin to vaccine,’ professor says.
"Harvard epidemiologist and expert in disease testing is calling for a
shift in strategy toward a cheap, daily, do-it-yourself test that he says
can be as effective as a vaccine at interrupting coronavirus transmission —
and is currently the only viable option for a quick return to an
approximation of normal life.
“These are our hope,” said Michal Mina
<https://ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu/people/michael-mina/>, assistant professor
of epidemiology at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health
<http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/> and Brigham and Women’s Hospital
<http://www.brighamandwomens.org/>. “We don’t have anything tomorrow, other
than shutting down the economy and keeping schools closed.”
As the pandemic’s health, economic, and educational toll mounts, Mina, a
member of the Harvard Chan School’s Center for Communicable Disease
Dynamics, <https://ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu/> said the paper-strip tests have
already been developed and their shotgun approach to testing — cheap and
widespread — provides a way back to the workplace, classroom, and other
venues."
https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2020/08/cheap-daily-covid-tests-could-be-akin-to-vaccine/?utm_source=SilverpopMailing&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Daily%20Gazette%2020200812%20(1)
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