what is pooled testing is and how it can be used for coronavirus
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(CNN)US health officials are increasingly proposing pooled testing -- mixing several people's biological samples and examining them in a single test -- to drastically boost the country's capacity to identify and contain coronavirus cases.The benefits could be plenty. Health experts say more surveillance testing -- especially to find infected people who are without symptoms -- could help contain the spread and let places like schools stay open safely.It isn't feasible to continually test everyone at a whole test per person. There simply aren't enough resources and supplies.But pool testing, under the right circumstances, could ultimately involve fewer tests and supplies, yet cover many more people than are tested now."Pooling would give us
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