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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You always have to assume extremely limited supply in (diagnostic) test equipment. Things like thermometers are luckily ubiquitous.
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My intuition for highly contagious pre-/no-symptom transmission is that testing people *randomly* then extrapolating total population would be most accurate. That may not be best for treatment, though.
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