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SunWuKung420 posted...

Putting unreliable test kits, that haven't been approved or cleared by the fda, in the hands of the not medically trained doesn't help anyone but the profits of the test makers.

It's picking your nose with a q-tip. It's not exactly something that requires extensive medical education.

The reliability is clearly inferior to what you can get from a PCR test, but the convenience, reduction in staffing requirements, and speed of results do a lot to make up for that. You're going to see far better early detection of Covid cases (and subsequent isolation, ideally) if people are routinely using rapid tests at home than if they aren't, especially if you offer confirmatory PCR tests for anyone that tests positive at home and recommend that symptomatic people get a PCR test regardless (both of which mitigate the potential reliability issues). The fact that it's not as reliable as giving everyone two PCR tests a week does nothing to change that, especially where giving everyone two PCR tests a week isn't remotely feasible in the vast majority of areas.