Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said health officials are “seriously considering” pooling samples as a way to ramp up COVID-19 testing in the midst of a pandemic characterized by a high degree of asymptomatic spread.
“What you need to do is find the penetration of infected people in your society,” Fauci told the Washington Post on Thursday. “And the only way you know that is by casting a broad net,” he said, referring to a novel approach called pool testing.
