Originally posted by SJHovey
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Wow.
Again, a national led system would have people sheltering in place until data came in. Probably, the system would be phased in over the country, but once the people you have to interact with are known, you can get together with them. Then the system can be used to trace who has it, and who they contacted to keep an eye on them.
My god- this playbook was developed VERY effectively in S Korea. And yet you CHOOSE to not know a single thing about it.
THIS ISN'T HARD. It's that we choose to do nothing, and then pretend that it's all we can do. We CAN train techs, we CAN use production lines to make PPE and testing equipment, we CAN turn up lab spaces for the tests. But when people who, in theory, think say we can't- like you- who CHOOSE to not accept that other countries can do this every effectively- well, we are were we are because of that.
WE CHOOSE to have limited tests a day, in limited locations, pretending that we can do massive amounts of people because of the lot size. When it would make whole lot more sense to distribute the tests to a place that represents the daily capability. Here's a good example of that- Hard Rock Stadium can do just 750 tests a day. That should be in a mall that is closed for businesses instead of a massive lot like that. That's really a waste of resources right there.
And in a 8 hour day, that's 100 tests per hour (give them half hour for lunch). 5 lanes = 20 tests per hour- and if there are two people per car, that's 10 cars in an hour. But even if not, it should not be hard to put a system together to get a single sample every 3 min. Production line thinking has multiple stations to get info, test, etc. And 5 lines = 150 cars per line.
Use a mobile system so that you can move neighborhoods. With all of the construction on hold, there are plenty of trailers available out there.
There's another main site in Miami that only is 400/day. Are you kidding me?
IMHO, setting up a mobile acquisition system capable of 500/day would be pretty straight forward. Put 20 of those around Miami, and that's 10k tests a day just there. Again, we have an employment problem in this country- so setting something like that up should have plenty of available people.
I just don't see it nearly as hard as people want to think it is.
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