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    The Case for Rapid At-Home COVID Testing for Everyone

    by Robert Bazell Aug 05, 2020 5 minutes

    The time it takes to ship COVID test samples to central labs and back is a burden—people risk infection as they wait days, sometimes weeks, for results.Photograph by MIA Studio / Shutterstock

    Imagine that every morning your child and her classmates take a COVID-19 test that offers results within a half hour, showing the transmission risk for that day. Those who might infect others stay home. The rest bring a time-stamped photo of their negative result. The tests are so cheap and simple to use that the government could give them to every home in America.

    The same scenario holds for people heading to their workplace. If the tests were perfect and widely used, they could quickly squash the epidemic. But even pretty accurate tests will do. Mathematical

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