> 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.
"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."
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.