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Pooled testing can be one good option if schools decide to do routing surveillance testing. The benefits are that the tests can be batched and run together, decreasing time to getting The Results and potentially decreasing cost of testing, the major drawback is that pooled testing is best used in low prevalence settings, because if there is a positive pool then all of the individual samples in that' batch' have to be disaggregated and tested individually to identify the actual positive sample or samples. – Yvonne Maldonado	Found on CNN 2 years ago
Their basic drawback is their relatively low efficiency, however, it is all a question of price. If the transparent cells are cheaper, and if the cells are to cover a relatively large area... it may be the better solution. – Anne Grete Hestnes	Found on CNN 4 years ago
It’s a fantastic moisturizer, the only drawback is the smell. – Erica Strausssaid she	Found on FOX News 7 years ago
It will be seen as the party that has forced early elections on a recalcitrant Turkish electorate at a time when there are severe challenges, both from the security perspective and also economically, the drawback to this gambit for Erdogan is that if the AK Party ends up losing votes, we may start to see more open dissatisfaction about his influence. – Sinan Ulgen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
The drawback to this gambit for Erdogan is that if the AK Party ends up losing votes, we may start to see more open dissatisfaction about his influence. – Sinan Ulgen	Found on Reuters 8 years ago
I didn't want to have a long name, Russell Estates or something. I didn't think trying to slap a name on a bottle that people might recognize was not only, to me, not necessarily a good thing, I thought it was a drawback, gogi is an old nickname of mine, so the brand is GoGi. – Kurt Russell	Found on FOX News 9 years ago
Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men. – Baruch Spinoza	added by anonymous 10 years ago
Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you. – Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day! – Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues	added by anonymous 13 years ago

Pooled testing can be one good option if schools decide to do routing surveillance testing. The benefits are that the tests can be batched and run together, decreasing time to getting The Results and potentially decreasing cost of testing, the major drawback is that pooled testing is best used in low prevalence settings, because if there is a positive pool then all of the individual samples in that' batch' have to be disaggregated and tested individually to identify the actual positive sample or samples.

– Yvonne Maldonado

Found on CNN
2 years ago

Their basic drawback is their relatively low efficiency, however, it is all a question of price. If the transparent cells are cheaper, and if the cells are to cover a relatively large area... it may be the better solution.

– Anne Grete Hestnes

Found on CNN
4 years ago

It’s a fantastic moisturizer, the only drawback is the smell.

– Erica Strausssaid she

Found on FOX News
7 years ago

It will be seen as the party that has forced early elections on a recalcitrant Turkish electorate at a time when there are severe challenges, both from the security perspective and also economically, the drawback to this gambit for Erdogan is that if the AK Party ends up losing votes, we may start to see more open dissatisfaction about his influence.

– Sinan Ulgen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

The drawback to this gambit for Erdogan is that if the AK Party ends up losing votes, we may start to see more open dissatisfaction about his influence.

– Sinan Ulgen

Found on Reuters
8 years ago

I didn't want to have a long name, Russell Estates or something. I didn't think trying to slap a name on a bottle that people might recognize was not only, to me, not necessarily a good thing, I thought it was a drawback, gogi is an old nickname of mine, so the brand is GoGi.

– Kurt Russell

Found on FOX News
9 years ago

Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it, we must direct our lives so as to please the fancy of men.

– Baruch Spinoza

added by anonymous
10 years ago

Of the Seven Deadly Sins, anger is possibly the most fun. To lick your wounds, to smack your lips over grievances long past, to roll over your tongue the prospect of bitter confrontations still to come, to savor to the last toothsome morsel both the pain you are given and the pain you are giving back--in many ways it is a feast fit for a king. The chief drawback is that what you are wolfing down is yourself. The skeleton at the feast is you.

– Frederick Buechner, Wishful Thinking, 1973

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Mornings are wonderful! The only drawback is that they come at such an inconvenient time of day!

– Glen Cook, Sweet Silver Blues

added by anonymous
13 years ago

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