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Paul Romer on a Culture of Science and Working Hard

Conversations with Tyler

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Why Aren't We Providing More Tests?

Many people have supported mass testing plans. Why do you think they're not getting more support? Because the benefit cost ratio, if you can pull it off, seems to be quite high. I've been using a model to trin figure out what is actually the the value of an additional test relative to its cost. It's just very clear that a test is worth a lot more than than it would cost the cost us to provide. If we spent about twice as much on tests as we spend on soda, we could have all the tests we need - twenty three million tests a day....

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