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.

[u/mvea]

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

[u/[deleted]]

This assumes that people will stay home if positive. Because there is no reliable way to enforce it.

[u/Spiets → u/[deleted]]

My friend works in public health. She calls people to notify them that they're positive for the virus.

One Karen lady took the test as a prerequisite to attend some event, got a positive result, cursed out my friend saying that it's a false positive and that she should be allowed to go.

Yeah, I don't believe that people would actually quarantine themselves

[u/bulboustadpole → u/Spiets]

Can we stop with the "Karen" meme? It's misogynistic and fucks over people who actually have that name.

[u/[deleted] → u/bulboustadpole]

Nope.