I’m all for rapid tests but I am kind of puzzled as to how we’ve gotten maximally focused on their power at the same time we’re seeing them clearly swamped in Europe.
https://twitter.com/nbeaudrot/status/1475896476953763842
Two things can be, and are, true:
1. We should have far more rapid tests approved and distributed, and there’s been both an FDA and administration failure here.
2. Rapid tests, within any real world usage level we’ve seen, will not contain Omicron.
1. We should have far more rapid tests approved and distributed, and there’s been both an FDA and administration failure here.
2. Rapid tests, within any real world usage level we’ve seen, will not contain Omicron.
Pay particular attention to the UK on that chart. They’ve had pretty much the ideal approach to rapid tests. And Omicron is just exploding.
Which, again, isn’t to say we shouldn’t be where the UK is on rapid tests. But I think people want to believe there’s a live-life, avoid-Omicron-surge option, and rapid tests are carrying the weight of that hope, when they can’t really bear it.
That said, I still believe everything from this April column: nytimes.com/2021/04/01/opi…
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