Because of budget shortfalls, the Heartland Institute suspended publication of Health Care News in March, 2020. Fortunately, the Goodman Institute for Public Policy stepped in to partner with Heartland to ensure the newspaper’s survival going forward. In an election year, this new partnership could not have come at a better time.
Author: John C. Goodman
Kotlikoff: Beating COVID-19 with Math
A strategy for extinguishing the novel coronavirus has been outlined by Cornell University’s Operations Research Professor Peter Frazier and colleagues. They developed a group testing protocol that could release 96 percent of the U.S. population back to society within four weeks, with this percentage rising even higher thereafter. Frazier envisions initially testing 62 households at a time, and assumes, to be conservative, a very high (30 percent false negative) test rate that would require some degree of redundancy to work efficiently. All told, though, the job could be done for the entire United States with only 6 million tests per week. That’s a large number, but just three to four times the test rate we’ve already reached.