The cataclysmic contagion based calamity -- Covid-19 has shown us a clear need for a comprehensive community based strategy that overcomes the sheer complexity of controlling it and the caveats of current methods. In this regard, as seen in earlier epidemics, testing has always been an integral part of containment policy. But one has to consider the optimality of a testing scheme based on the resultant disease spread in the community and not based on purely increasing testing efficiency. Therefore, taking a decision is no easy feat and must consider the community utility constrained by its priorities, budget, risks, collateral and abilities which can be encoded into the optimization of the strategy. We thus propose a simple pooling strategy that is easy to customize and practical to implement, unlike other complex and computationally intensive methods.

翻译：以传染为主的灾难性灾难 -- -- Covid-19向我们表明,显然需要一项全面的社区战略,克服控制这种疾病的复杂性和目前方法的告诫,在这方面,如以前的流行病所见,试验一直是遏制政策的一个组成部分,但必须考虑基于在社区传播的疾病而不是纯粹提高试验效率的试验计划的最佳性,因此,作出决定并非易事,必须考虑到社区效用受到其优先事项、预算、风险、抵押品和能力的限制,这些都可纳入战略的优化之中,因此,我们提出了一个简单的集中战略,便于定制和切实实施,而不同于其他复杂和计算密集的方法。