330,500,000 citizens / 50,000 tests manufactured per day = 6610 days, or 18 years to manufacture enough tests to test each citizen once.
It’s 50 million tests a day not 50,000!,,
From their press release, they are expanding test production for both their small machine, and the big hospital-lab machine
We’re currently manufacturing 50,000 tests per day, plan to increase ID NOW manufacturing capacity to 2 million tests a month by June and are working to expand beyond that.
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A rapid test is one part of the solution, not the only one. Our m2000 RealTime molecular laboratory instrument, for example, can run 470 tests a day and give results in about 6.5 hours. Importantly, we’re now able to produce 1 million tests a week for our m2000 laboratory system. To date, we’ve shipped nearly 1 million tests to customers across the U.S. and have begun to ship tests to other countries around the world.