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At a population level, this would be both extremely time-consuming, and rather expensive.

More generally, no test is perfectly accurate, and for low base rate conditions the vast majority of positive tests will be false positives.

Like, again, as a data person I adore this idea in principle, but there would be a lot of details that we'd need to figure out to make it a reality.

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