| sethnintendo said: I wonder how much that testing is just athletes, rich people and politicians being tested over and over again. Sure probably not huge number but when they say 40 million tests have been completed I bet around 5% are the same elites being tested constantly. |
The Antibody tests, are going towards the total "tests" even if they shouldn't.
(anti body tests shows who's had it, not who has it now, to prevent spread, which is what the testing in this matter is about, find you have it & isolate, and stop spread).
Another issue is that some places in the US, they are reporting that it takes 7-9 days to get the test results back.
A person with a mild case, barely aware that they *might* have corona virus.
Could still go outsides, mingle, go to work, if they dont "for sure" know they have the virus and are spreading it.
9 days lateron, they get the results back "you have covid19", and by then they might have recovered from their mild case.
However they still infected alot of others during that same time periode.
Which makes the test itself worthless.
Testing needs to be 1-2days to get a answear at most.
That way you can curb, the infected infecting others.
Doesnt matter if you test 500,000 people and say 100,000 antibody tests (600k combined), if most of that testing data is useless for preventing spread. (ei. its about people that already had it, or the results go back to the tested too slowly to matter)
edit:
*retesting is helpfull though.
Some people (such as leaders) cant afford to be missing for long periodes so you want them and people around them tested often.
Just because you test negative for the virus, doesnt mean you cant get it the next day/week, so its helpfull that they use testing often.
You could argue its unfair, that those with money can easily get tested and quick results, while others might not be able to get tested, and have to wait in long ques in car lines for 12+ hours, and only get results back like 9days lateron.
