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. 2020 Dec 21;15(12):e0243692. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0243692

Table 2. Expected time in days to test 10% of the US population for three different infection rates.

Method ir = 0.1% ir = 1% ir = 2.5%
days speedup days speedup days speedup
Individual testing 224.4 224.4 224.4
2-level pooling 16.4 13.7x 45.8 4.9x 70.1 3.2x
Binary splitting 10.3 21.8x 28.5 7.9x 55.4 4.1x
Recursive binary splitting 8.8 25.5x 23.2 9.7x 46.4 4.8x
Purim 14.6 15.4x 31.1 7.2x 55.2 4.1x
Sobel-R1 8.7 25.8x 20.7 10.8x 39.4 5.7x

Test capacities and simulation parameters as of April 14, 2020, see Table 1