There’s not enough consumable tests, and there is currently no installed base of surface plasmon resonance machines, nor any of the other myriad types of constant-monitoring systems that have actually been proven to work for many years now in high-risk facilities (I developed some for the government 15 years ago and it wasn’t new).
If you want my opinion, the right way to approach this is using the consumable tests to maximum effect for mass viral surveillance by contact group hierarchies. For instance, pool an entire school district on a single test, and then hunt down positives by school then class etc. There won’t be enough tests to find every case. That’s okay; others in contact are suspect anyway even if their test would have been negative at that time. The contact group discovery is simple too: cell tower data (civil liberties notwithstanding).
This is pretty obvious, but it doesn’t work because our medical system is set up to charge individuals, and the highest priority will always be hospital admittances. This does little for the patient, but does protect others in the hospital.
If you want my opinion, the right way to approach this is using the consumable tests to maximum effect for mass viral surveillance by contact group hierarchies. For instance, pool an entire school district on a single test, and then hunt down positives by school then class etc. There won’t be enough tests to find every case. That’s okay; others in contact are suspect anyway even if their test would have been negative at that time. The contact group discovery is simple too: cell tower data (civil liberties notwithstanding).
This is pretty obvious, but it doesn’t work because our medical system is set up to charge individuals, and the highest priority will always be hospital admittances. This does little for the patient, but does protect others in the hospital.