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Test Everyone?
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On Sun, 26 Apr 2020 02:46:13 -0000 (UTC), Bill wrote: Mr. Luddite wrote: On 4/25/2020 7:44 PM, Mr. Luddite wrote: Listening to Paul Romer, an economics professor and former former world bank economist. He wants a $100 million program to test *everyone* in the US biweekly for the covid-19 virus, realizing that a person could be negative today but go out and become infected tomorrow.Â* He is proposing this to make sure we can "open" the country/economy again. I think I heard that so far 5 million people have been tested in the USA and this is after a herculean effort to get more test machines and test kits distributed. How the hell does he expect to test *everyone* biweekly as a condition for people to go back to work? I am not even sure if it would be legal to mandate the tests. Make that "$100 *billion* program, not $100 million. I commented on the $100 million. So how many tests can a person get for $300? Yeah $100Billion sounds right but if you are just looking for active cases you are wasting your money. In real life sample antibody testing is all you need anyway. You can make projections from there. They are still watching the people with antibodies to be sure they really are immune, If not, it may shoot the hell out of the plans for a vaccine. Most vaccines are far from perfect anyway. Your average flu vaccine is 50-75% effective. The flu vaccine is not against all flu, is formulated for the suspected flus of that year. Some suspects don’t cooperate. |
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