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416. How Do You Reopen a Country?

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Incentivizing COVID Testing Through Innovative Solutions

This chapter tackles the obstacles of promoting widespread COVID testing as a means to safely transition out of quarantine. It introduces a lottery system as a potential solution to encourage voluntary testing through financial rewards, arguing that the social advantages far exceed the costs.

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