Testing Our Way Out of Pandemics

•Continuous universal testing and isolation strategy is the most viable way to vanquish the pandemic while keeping the economy open with minimal restrictions•The estimated cost of testing is dwarfed by its return, mitigating the economic fallout of the pandemic•To implement universal testing, an epidemiological rather than clinical approach to testing—sacrificing accuracy for scalability, convenience, and speed—is required to reach a large share of population in short time