More than 45 economists, social scientists, lawyers and ethicists say there's a growing consensus pointing to a major step necessary to put Americans back to work: dramatically upscaling testing.
''It means calling people, finding who they have been in contact with and then contacting these individuals and having individuals quarantine at home for 14 days and have them call in to see if they report symptoms,'' said Crystal Watson, a senior scholar at Johns Hopkins and one of the lead authors of a recent study from Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security.
The Johns Hopkins study recommends investing $3.6 billion to hire and train 100,000 contact tracing personnel. The new report goes even further, recommending hiring hundreds of thousands of contact tracers.The key, experts say, is testing and tracing fast enough so that the virus doesn’t spread; getting the time frame down from days to hours.
People are checked in at a newly set up COVID-19 testing site in Brooklyn, New York, April 16, 2020. New York City is still the epicenter of the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus which causes the Covid-19 disease outbreak in the United States.
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