A COVID-19 test is administered at Balboa Sports Center on July 30, 2020 in Encino, California. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times via Getty Images) Amid the crisis, some health officials are calling for the introduction of a different type of test that would yield results in a matter of minutes and would be cheap and simple enough for millions of Americans to test themselves — but would also be less accurate.“There’s a sense of desperation that we need to do something else,” said Dr.
Ashish Jha, director of Harvard’s Global Health Institute.Widespread testing is considered essential to containing the outbreak as the U.S.