This is definitely a policy problem. The article (and others) seem to focus on the theory that people don't know they can be tested - but why would people like myself, who have barely left the house and show no symptoms, want to go get tested now?
It mentions that Utah has a capacity for 9000 a day but is doing 3500. Why not set aside 4000 a day for surveillance of government employees who still going into work (police officers, EMTs, firefighters, etc) or pay the testing companies to do testing for grocery stores or warehouses? Or maybe, tell restaurants they can open up sooner if they do weekly testing of employees?
That presents a scaling issue. Having more capacity than currently being consumed doesn't suggest there is even nearly enough to test an entire demographic so often / regularly.
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[ 5.2 ms ] story [ 19.5 ms ] threadIt mentions that Utah has a capacity for 9000 a day but is doing 3500. Why not set aside 4000 a day for surveillance of government employees who still going into work (police officers, EMTs, firefighters, etc) or pay the testing companies to do testing for grocery stores or warehouses? Or maybe, tell restaurants they can open up sooner if they do weekly testing of employees?