If we reach the government's target of 100,000 tests per day it will take 660 days to test everyone. 2 years. That's without repeat testing anyone. It can't be done. The other method is track and trace. If someone tests positive, you trace everyone they have been in contact with, test them, those that are positive you trace who they have been in contact with and so on. It's very difficult when you have as many cases as we do, but still more realistic than testing everyone.
If we reach the govts target well all be dead before pets done . You test in areas where the outbreak is not just infected people and their contacts as in Wuhan .
I’m feeling like the WHO representative of the BBS . I don’t know the answers but I do know it’s been done . It’s been done in China and Italy are in the way to track and Trace .
No they can't, not in a way that would provide any type of containment, where as track and trace maybe can. And you're still talking about track and trace and blanket testing as though they're the same thing when they're not
Everyone? So the whole country? How often? Because you could trust negative then catch the next day anyway. I think track and trace together with social distancing could keep the numbers down to manageable levels though.
They can't using laboratory checked tests, it's just not possible to have labs testing anywhere near the required number of samples to do the entire population regularly enough. The only way it becomes possible is through home test kits that have been mentioned in the media. A pee stick or a ***** test (oh shut up) where the user gets the results themselves quickly but I'm not aware of any country using these yet?
