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A Simple Way to Help Keep the COVID-19 Economy Working — Mark Roe

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If the economy is to be saved before the pandemic wipes it out, it will happen on the public-health front. And here, the least important medically• of the three major biomedical channels now in play may well be the one that could impede economic Armageddon.... • General testing is important medically in developing herd immunity longterm. It is of immediate use economically in determine who can work.As I was driving through Albuquerque this weekend, I saw a billboard advertising free COVID-19 testing at home to anyone requesting it. This should be the standard as soon as it can be implemented practically. Project Syndicate A Simple Way to Help Keep the COVID-19 Economy Working Mark Roe | professor at Harvard Law School See also at PS The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the world with

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If the economy is to be saved before the pandemic wipes it out, it will happen on the public-health front. And here, the least important medically• of the three major biomedical channels now in play may well be the one that could impede economic Armageddon....
• General testing is important medically in developing herd immunity longterm. It is of immediate use economically in determine who can work.

As I was driving through Albuquerque this weekend, I saw a billboard advertising free COVID-19 testing at home to anyone requesting it. This should be the standard as soon as it can be implemented practically.

Project Syndicate
A Simple Way to Help Keep the COVID-19 Economy Working
Mark Roe | professor at Harvard Law School

See also at PS
The COVID-19 pandemic threatens the world with disaster. But the crisis also offers governments a rare chance to undertake policy changes that address the short-term public-health challenge and boost the global economy’s long-term growth potential....
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Shang-Jin Wei | former chief economist at the Asian Development Bank, now Professor of Finance and Economics at Columbia Business School and Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs


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Mike Norman is an economist and veteran trader whose career has spanned over 30 years on Wall Street. He is a former member and trader on the CME, NYMEX, COMEX and NYFE and he managed money for one of the largest hedge funds and ran a prop trading desk for Credit Suisse.

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