To End The Coronavirus Crisis We Need Widespread Testing, Experts Say
The Trump administration says not everyone needs a test, but experts say a strategy of broad testing and isolating the sick is our best way to solve this crisis.
by Geoff Brumfiel
Mar 24, 2020
3 minutes
Stay inside, don't meet with friends, don't go to work â these are the messages coming from public health officials at every level of government. But increasingly, experts say they believe those stark warnings must be augmented with another message:
If you think you might be sick, even a little sick, get tested for coronavirus.
"Everyone staying home is just a very blunt measure. That's what you say when you've got really nothing else," says , an associate scientist at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. "Being able to
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