Using the John Hopkins study as a basis, we now know a test from the most reliable product will give an average 38% false negative on the first day of symptoms. On the fourth day of symptoms false negatives are down to 20%. Many of the products are far less accurate. Some people actually died before they tested positive. We have some tests which give an answer in five minutes and some require days. Some will give as many false positives as false negatives.

People can have the virus, take a test, get a negative reading, then infect everybody who gets close to them because they were told they were free of the virus. People can be free and get infected minutes after having the test. Trump’s body guards and staff are required to have one of the rare five minute tests daily. He says anybody that wants a test can have one but that is absolutely not true!

The ultimate plan of the experts is to have enough tests to have all Americans tested in one ten day period this fall or early winter. It would mean testing about 200 million or 20 million a day. Otherwise negatives will become infected before any people are tested and quarantined.

The vaccine may be found and approved (Hope it is safe) and a couple of hundred million shots made by next spring. The number one chance is from Oxford in UK. Trump keeps saying we will only use one invented in American. American made ones are going to take longer.

I don’t know if testing is worth the effort unless we all get a quick test at the same time with 100% accuracy.