New coronavirus test plan would screen 30 million million per week, cost up to $100 billion
The Rockefeller plan says that more testing must be done to accurately capture the level of Covid-19 infections in the U.S.
"In short, the United States needs to increase the current level of 1 million tests per week by at least 10-fold and preferably 20-fold to adequately monitor the pandemic." The second part of the plan envisions a paid Covid Community Healthcare Corps, comprised of between 100,000 and 300,000 people, to perform the high number of texts and conduct "contact tracing," or reaching out to individuals who have been around infected people,and testing them as well.
"Our future capacity to produce" is lower because of the economic cost of the pandemic "and it deteriorates with each month of delay," said Romer, who contributed to the Rockefeller Foundation's plan.
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