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The Economics of Covid Management (Glenn Loury & Laurence Kotlikoff)

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The Importance of Rapid Home Tests

If we had these rapid home tests that we're describing in our hands today, we'd probably take the economy three weeks to get back on its feet. Within 14 days, we would find out everybody who was essentiallyEverybody who was positive, they would be staying home. This could work at sporting events. It could work at meat packing plants. It could also work at political conventions. We could be back to life again. If only we had the information and the way of verifying reliably the information.

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