Cheap, saliva based Covid testing has arrived.

[geomancer]

Apologies for highjacking your thread, but I'm gonna put up these links here to avoid the threads corrupted by COVID deniers.

Cheap, saliva based testing has arrived. To be effective, there needs to be a <24 hour turnaround to catch people when they are most contagious.

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/...est-funded-nba
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued an emergency authorization on Saturday allowing public use of a saliva-based test for the coronavirus developed at Yale University and funded by the NBA and the National Basketball Players Association.

The test, known as SalivaDirect, is designed for widespread public screening. The cost per sample could be as low as about $4, though the cost to consumers will likely be higher than that -- perhaps around $15 or $20 in some cases, according to expert sources.

​https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/sto...in-to-vaccine/
The strategy, if adopted and backed by the federal government, could put hundreds of millions of tests in the hands of consumers within weeks, at a cost far less than repeated rounds of economic stimulus, Mina said. The tests, which can be produced for less than a dollar, can be performed by consumers each day or every other day. Though not as accurate as current diagnostic tests, they are nonetheless effective at detecting virus when a person is most infectious, Mina said. If everyone who tests positive stays home, he said, the widespread effect would be similar to that of a vaccine, breaking transmission chains across the country.