Testing capacity in Germany will be increased by up to factor 10 to up to 400,000 a day (!) by doing pooled testing. E.g mix 16 samples and if negative – all are negative, otherwise binary search for the positve(s). Could of course be used worldwide. https://t.co/X9lg4V90GE
— koeppelmann.eth 🦉💳 (@koeppelmann) March 31, 2020
As the thread points out, you could just do one test per household, on the assumption that if one is infected, all are or will be. Hope the CDC/White House are aware of this thinking, because it makes a hell of a lot of sense to accelerate our knowledge of the scope.
I was just thinking we are all going to come out of this with either long hair, shaved heads, or with terrible haircuts (except for those rare people who are hunkering down with barbers and stylists).
The Bee is on fire today. I also like the story about Bernie having difficulty staying six feet away from Americans’ wallets, and Trump installing ejection seats in the White House briefing room.
You should really, really, really not want to be put on a ventilator. It’s sort of like ejecting from an aircraft; attempted suicide to avoid certain death.