
The Economics of Covid Management (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)
The Glenn Show
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The Role of Reliability in Contagious Disease Prevention
The reason it's the end of the problem is because you will have with very high reliability identified the universe of infected people. And by the way, the repeat testing every house you can't have any leakage here. So that's all incorporated. He had built into the into his analysis, very high, false negative rates, much higher than we think is actually the case for this particular test. The president back in April could have organized the entire country to, even with people not using masks, not social distancing,. We could have back starting in April had this entire thing over within a month.
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