Addressing the Super-spreaders, Spreaders, and the essentiality of testing
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A @ScienceMagazine yesterday provided elegant modeling from real data to show that 79% of the spread was from people without #COVID19 detection.
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thelancet.com/journals/lance… @TheLancet
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nypost.com/2020/03/16/bel…
Only on March 9th was he tested, it came back + on March 13, and he died March 16th.
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The smart approach would be to get these tests, now w/ more rapid turnaround, broadly used. Like every #healthcare worker, repeated later if negative, to prevent spread.
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