Read a good take on this by an economist. Don’t have the link handy but at the levels of differences in sensitivity and specificity, his view was that it didn’t matter. What mattered in the case of comparison was testing regimes and not test metrics because a cheaper, faster test allows you to both scale enormously and inform the user much faster that the final metrics that matter - total infection spreading through the population, total deaths and the potential upside of a quick pregnancy style test in restoring normality, the rapid test regime would win easily. Tend to agree with that view.
It is evident that testing rapidly at low cost is one way to significantly slow down the pandemic. The way I think about it is if you tested no one, the pandemic would go about undetected fastest but if every single person in a country could get tested and get their result back every day, you ideally wouldn’t have a pandemic(apparently you would though because people are cnuts and would go out drinking even if they’re positive is what recent experience tells me but ignoring that..). It is a monotonic function but needs unprecedented scale.
