[ejstronge]

Why do you state that our testing capacity has been maxed out? My understanding is that factors like the availability of swabs and the availability of medical personnel to administer tests are a bigger bottleneck than qPCR machines.

[cheriot]

I don't have any insight into the why. Only that the growth rate in tests per day has slowed to an almost stagnant level.

[ejstronge]

At least anecdotally, it doesn’t seem that we’re hitting our full testing potential. I think adding in a new technique would only exacerbate the mismatch between test supply and test utilization.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-01068-3