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> Germany is doing something clever, they are mixing samples to do a kind of binary search...

Do you have a link for that? I can find some papers suggesting you can detect one positive sample mixed with 31 negative, but nothing about that being applied.

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Just googled this and I found a discussion here: https://twitter.com/koeppelmann/status/1245037948099330048

"Testing capacity in Germany will be increased by up to factor 10 to up to 400,000 a day (!) by doing pooled testing. E.g mix 16 samples and if negative - all are negative, otherwise binary search for the positive(s). Could of course be used worldwide."

He quotes a tweet with a link to this study: https://idw-online.de/de/news743899

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