Yale study: Send everyone a coronavirus testing kit and save 15,700 lives FacebookTwitterEmail Professor A. David Paltiel of the Yale School of Public HealthYale University NEW HAVEN — In two months, the nation could prevent 2.8 million COVID-19 infections and save 15,700 lives if every household was given a set of test kits to use once a week, according to a study by the Yale School of Public Health. This would be true even if most people threw the tests away or ignored the results, the research, published Tuesday in Annals of Internal Medicine, found. The cost would be about $68 per person, the study found.