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Fun with exponents
On 5/29/2020 9:00 PM, Radey Shouman wrote:
news18 writes: On Fri, 29 May 2020 20:42:32 -0400, Radey Shouman wrote: John B. writes: But from what I read the U.S. has conducted nearly 17 million tests, at least 4 times that of any other country except Russia. Was it all a waste of time and money? Depends on what you want to do. If you want a good estimate of the proportion of the total population that is infected, then yes, mostly a waste of time and money. Sampling sewerage seems the way to go, if you want 7 days notice of an cases arising. No link as "sampling sewerage fr covid-19 in a web search turns up a pile of links. And a fine idea it is. But it doesn't involve an invasion of privacy, so probably will get no traction. +1 on that! -- Andrew Muzi www.yellowjersey.org/ Open every day since 1 April, 1971 |
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