Well, I’m no epidemiologist (nor did I stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night), but for assessing the spread of a novel virus into a population, widespread testing might not be a bad idea...?
I was going to point out that your opinion is worthless b Ed cause you begin by telling us that you have no bonifides to support your expertise.
Then I saw it was you.
This is the necessary next phase of dealing with this. They need an accurate sampling of what is happening. What would be best is to actually randomly call in about 2000 people across the country for testing. The whole curve for the United States could be developed within 7 days or so of that date.. especially if another flight of 2000 could be tested in the next week.
I am sure that someone will come up with this idea by Tuesday or so and we will hear about it. Google standing this up this fast is essential for this sort of activity to be added.
Trump’s enlisting Google in this was genius as it put their corporate prestige on the line and they couldn’t afford to play politics but had to “get ‘er done.” That said, Google has the infrastructure (sofware wise) to make this pretty much a job of assembling Legos rather than developing something from scratch.
Pretty darn impressive.