09-21-2020, 10:31 AM
(09-20-2020, 08:54 PM)magnus Wrote: Belated information, the CDC updated their guidelines to stress asymptomatic people should be tested.
To clarify, I think you are referring to testing people who are contacts of a known COVID-19 case. I am not sure this is necessarily a great idea. As I pointed out previously, it depends on the "yield". If the results of such testing so far indicate that the probability of such a person being positive isn't significantly greater than in the general population, it is arguably a wasted test. Does anybody know what the positive rate of such tests has been? I haven't been able to find that information anywhere.
