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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We opted in.  Even my elementary age kid knows it is the right thing to do.  Come on people.  [/quote]

I just opted in.  APS answered my questions, and there are a good number from my 2nd graders class doing it.

I still think they should have made it opt-out instead of opt-in.  Part of why I didn't want to do it was the disruption to learning (leaving class, being the only one, possible false positives) but I think the negatives don't outweigh the positive (stopping possible covid spread).  [/quote]

Have they answered how the algorithm works? That really is my only remaining question. [/quote]

Yes. Tommy comes in to test. He gives one sample. Some of the sample gets set aside. The rest is run in two different pools. If both pools come back positive, the testers look to see who was in both of the positive pools - it's Tommy! So no one else has to quarantine except for Tommy. Then to be even more sure, they go back to the set-aside from Tommy's sample and retest it individually, which is very quick. I think they said it can be as fast as 12 hours, and that in some cases Tommy wouldn't even be notified until they had done the confirmatory test, it's that fast.

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