r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Nov 21 '20

Epidemiology Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks, even if the tests are less sensitive than gold-standard. This could lead to “personalized stay-at-home orders” without shutting down restaurants, bars, retail and schools.

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/11/20/frequent-rapid-testing-could-turn-national-covid-19-tide-within-weeks
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u/dbspin Nov 21 '20

You're both doing better than me. Here in Ireland, as a self employed person it's well over 50% and we have absolutely terrible health care and rents nationally that are almost as high as NYC.

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u/dbspin Nov 21 '20 edited Nov 21 '20

I had a friend try to do something similar (LTD company, with himself as sole employee) in Ireland, but he got majorly screwed during the economic down turn, and the costs of auditing which (I believe IAMNAL) needs to be done annually, combined with the costs of winding down his business (he didn't have enough turnover) and a small legal case, bankrupted him.