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Originally Posted by Velvet
Easy to read plan, worthy of a Nobel laureate. Until there is a vaccine or good treatment this plan seems feasible. What it assumes is though that we have tests which can identify Covid in a person pre symptoms. Is there such a test? Next, can we produce enough of these tests? How often would we need to test the same person?
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Yes, we have the test. No, we don't have the capacity. Romer wants 22 million tests per day (we currently are under 1 million tests per day). Nobody said getting out of this mess would be easy. However, he points out the between Roche and Abbott alone, if they built enough analyzers, we could do 22 million tests per day. Bend some metal. Everyone in the U.S. would be tested once every two weeks. Total cost to ramp up and execute would be $150 billion. Seems like a bargain to be virus free and the economy full-steam ahead. We've spent $2 trillion thus far and are just treading water.