One million a day seems like a lot until you realize it would take about a year to test everyone in the US... How can we increase this to 10m per day? Is that possible?
I think we can scale it to significantly more than 1M a day, but it would require the relaxation of certain regulations that currently prevent collaboration between clinical laboratories and other institutions that have Sanger instruments. FDA and CMS require that clinical laboratories process the sample end-to-end, so it prevents a distributed model of initial processing in the clinical laboratory followed up with send-out for Sanger sequencing.
California CLIA and FDA regulations for COVID-19 testing have been relaxed significantly over the last few weeks, so the above is perhaps not impossible.
One million a day seems like a lot until you realize it would take about a year to test everyone in the US... How can we increase this to 10m per day? Is that possible?