Pool testing.
Just been listening to an Economist podcast discussing pool testing.
Seemingly the main bottle neck at the moment is lab capacity and pool testing can help this.
i.e. (simplistically) put 10 samples together and test it. If it is negative then you have cleared 10 people with 1 test.
If it is positive then it will now take a total of 11 to clear 10 people.
In regions where infection is supposed to be lowish it could help.signoficantly. Less so of course in areas of high infection.
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