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Message: [QUOTE="ShmiCO, post: 3634641, member: 9524"] I'm actually pretty hopeful for basketball this year. A new testing tactic out of Harvard School of Public Health using $1-$2 at-home, self-tests is starting to gain ground. [URL='https://www.bostonherald.com/2020/08/05/massachusetts-joins-seven-state-pact-pursuing-rapid-coronavirus-antigen-tests/']Seven states announced yesterday that they are going this route.[/URL] Spit onto a paper strip every day, results in 10-20 minutes. Test positive? Stay home and work with the doc and coaches on next steps. Our current "nasal swap" testing method is 100x more costly, and takes 3-4 days for results. (Unless testing capacity is overloaded, then it could be a week or more.) It's a more sensitive test but in a young healthy person, the turnaround time is pretty much the entire infectious period. You've missed the chance to stop the spread of the disease. So why didn't we do this earlier? New science. We now have data on the viral loads required to infect others. And it turns out that the very folks found by the cheap tests are the ones who are currently infectious. [URL='https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7Sv_pS8MgQ']An explanation of the test and the science behind it, if you are interested in the nitty gritty.[/URL] I know I'm coloring outside the lines of BY policy here, and I hope I don't get banned for this post. To me this testing tactic is possibly the best covid-19 news EVER, and I finally feel hopeful for a return to normalcy. But it's up to the moderators. Go Huskies! [/QUOTE]

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