America’s Public Health Experiment: The testing failure
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Is Testing Worth It?
Even with vaccines, people still need these rapid tasts available to them. It ultimately comes to a calculation of how much risk tolerance do you have? Vaccines are very good, but theyare not perfect, right? So even if you were vaccinated, you could get infection, a break through infection. And ar some people with break through infections do end up in the hospital or do end up with severe disease. The benefits of testing do reduce when a large fraction of the population is vaccinated, or whena the underlying prevalence of the disease is low in the community. If you're doing ten thousand tests and identifying only five positive cases, maybe testing is not worth it. But if you're
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