Germany has done a great deal with testing, as you know. But at least now, as if, i think, may twelfth, their ar is still over one. Does that worry you? does testing really get you o to the promised land if you're not ia island? It does worry me. And i don't think that oas well as they've done. What we want for suppression is r significantly less than one. And germany is not testing at the scale that i would propose....
Paul Romer makes his second appearance to discuss the failings of economics, how his mass testing plan for COVID-19 would work, what aspects of epidemiology concern him, how the FDA is slowing a better response, his ideas for reopening schools and Major League Baseball, where he agrees with Weyl’s test plan, why charter cities need a new name, what went wrong with Honduras, the development trajectory for sub-Saharan Africa, how he’d reform the World Bank, the underrated benefits of a culture of science, his heartening takeaway about human nature from his experience at Burning Man, and more.
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