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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

From Abbott financials, I would gather that ~130 million BinaxNow rapid tests were sold in the US in 3Q and that these were slightly more than half the market for rapid tests. So maybe that's 250m tests sold, which equals 0.2-0.3 per American per 30 days. https://t.co/96By7A7f3t — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 27, 2021

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Nate Silver @NateSilver538

By comparison, the average American is taking something like 0.1-0.2 out-of-home tests per 30 days. So, yeah, my followers like getting tested. But we don't have a firm grip on how many *at-home* tests Americans are taking, which are largely going unrecorded. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 27, 2021

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There are a lot of ambiguities here. Buying a rapid test and storing it in your cupboard isn't the same as *using* a rapid test. Also, institutional settings sometimes also use rapid tests like BinaxNow. So rapid tests are not equivalent to at-home tests. — PolitiTweet.org

Posted Dec. 27, 2021