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[quote=Anonymous]"You can't jump on 'frequent testing' and then say my college tests twice a week and so we're good. the study says every two days with a rapid result test - and it was a computer simulation. Do these tests exist in sufficient quantity? I know people who've waited 3 weeks for test results in July."

You would have to read the actual paper to determine what "screening every two days means"  Screening can be done by well designed sampling.

Like instead of testing everyone between 8 and 9 am every other day, which is impossible without lining them up in a huge field and everyone swabbing themselves, they would be testing specific students from each floor of each dorm spread over most hours of each day.

That means that a representative sample could be screened several times a day.  If that protocol resulted in twice a week for every student rather than every other day, it would likely be fine.

The harder part is the “strict behavioral interventions” like quarantining positive students in isolation dormitories.  For example, what about the roommates who live with a positive but don't yet test positive? [/quote]

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