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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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The Alternative to Social Distancing as a Strategy for Controlling the Virus

The alternative to social distancing as a strategy for controlling the disease is really massively ramped up, massively scaled up testing combined with individual quarantine. So we are going to continue to need individual quarantine for those who are positive carriers of the virus until such a point as we have got en a vaccine. Anyone, any time anyone coughs a, i gon, exactlyi troms trog in the throat. That's all it is. Am such as to play out a thought experiment. If if we had an infinite number of tests available, and im after, after the curve has flattened and cases have gone down, everyone came back to work, but every one was tested every day,...

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