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The tech we need to end the pandemic and restart the economy with Danielle Allen

The TED Interview

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Using Smart Testing to Control Infectious Disease

If you were going to use a purely random testing method, that would mean doing two hundred million like tests a day. So the thing that you really need is smart testing. You target it through contact tracing or contact warning and then depending on the level of effectiveness of your contact tracing and contact warning testing can reduce the numbers. But even that is a magnitude, and that would take us multiple months to get to....

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