Many have probably seen the threads (e.g., here and here, and this Medium post by Yishan Wong) about how massively scaled up testing is the key to threading the needle between economic collapse (long-term suppression tactics) and unacceptably high mortality (mitigation only, or worse, doing nothing). Aggressive and scaled up testing infrastructure is the key enabler for contact tracing, which appears to be the cornerstone of the South Korea model, which notably does not rely on draconian suppression tactics like lockdown, and they are currently the only other country than China (that I know of) that has R0 < 1.
I’m now wondering if, in the spirit of wartime efforts, more people can be trained to help power this testing infrastructure than can be trained to help increase our healthcare capacity.
Many have probably seen the threads (e.g., here and here, and this Medium post by Yishan Wong) about how massively scaled up testing is the key to threading the needle between economic collapse (long-term suppression tactics) and unacceptably high mortality (mitigation only, or worse, doing nothing). Aggressive and scaled up testing infrastructure is the key enabler for contact tracing, which appears to be the cornerstone of the South Korea model, which notably does not rely on draconian suppression tactics like lockdown, and they are currently the only other country than China (that I know of) that has R0 < 1.
I’m now wondering if, in the spirit of wartime efforts, more people can be trained to help power this testing infrastructure than can be trained to help increase our healthcare capacity.