too much testing --- with all due respect, that sounds like a twitter or internet talking point that is not based in reality. I think rapid testing is vital and I dont think we have that or reliable enough testing. Ive read there are some areas that have excess tests vs hot spots that dont have enough.
But this is about getting better quicker tests and more of them.
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But the US testing program can’t be considered “best in the world.” The US has run 83.24 tests per thousand individuals, according to numbers from Our World in Data. By comparison, Russia, which is also being hit hard by the virus, has run 120.07 tests per thousand people.
And the US is currently testing about 500,000 people per day, far behind the 5-million-a-day mark that Trump said the country was closing in on in late April. That is not necessarily because it can’t test more people: the country’s testing capacity has significantly improved since the pandemic began. Still, a Washington Post survey of about 20 states last month found the country was running at least 235,000 fewer tests a day than it could have run. While places with spikes in infections—like Arizona—are facing shortages, large swaths of the country are actually reporting underutilized availability.
https://www.technologyreview.com/202...ble-reopening/
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Funding for better quicker and patient friendlier tests are 100% absolutely needed imo.
Being against funding for testing is absurd to me. Testing is needed for schools to reopen.