Could group testing for Covid-19 contain the virus in just one month?

Confronting Coronavirus

As the world continues to fight against the spread of coronavirus, testing remains one of the key ways to keep infection under control. But how can we reach a level of testing which will allow the public to return to their daily lives while preventing a second wave of the disease? In today’s episode, we hear from Peter Fraizer, a professor of Operations Research at Cornell University in New York. Together with his colleagues, Fraizer has devised a group testing protocol, which he claims, if implemented, would see over 90% of Americans returning to work in just one month.