Reply to Why is testing not part of the reopening plan?

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Why is testing not part of the reopening plan?"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most of the studies done so far have been in medical settings, but together, they suggest that asymptomatic testing in low-prevalence contexts has minimal utility. Symptomatic screening seems to be more useful and cost-effective.

If we're going to spend money on surveillance testing, wastewater testing is a better bet.[/quote]

This.[/quote]

Wastewater testing is cheaper and logistically easier but not as good since it's aggregated and diffuse.  Of course proper testing at schools is not really being proposed.[/quote]

Testing random asymptomatic people ONLY in schools does not tell us as much about community spread, which is what really matters. Like, if they want to do pooled testing, fine. But it's just a waste of money to examine every individual sample, especially when the prevalence rate is fairly low.[/quote]

We don't actually know the prevalence rate because there has never been any systematic large scale teating.  All asymptomatic infections are being missed.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics