I know people have made this point. But I don't it's totally sunk in how much there's a fairly direct 1:1 trade-off between better testing/tracking on the one hand, and the need for radical, society-wide social distancing (with all its consequences) on the other hand.
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Absolutely. Especially epidemiological testing (the population) rather than medical testing (the suspicious cases). If you have sings or symptoms, operate under the belief that you're infected.
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Here's the task for Nate and Nate fans: How do you test for a rapidly evolving exponential distribution under signal lag, with limited testing resources? This is the question everyone should try to answer.
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