Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Romer says for the US to return to normal by the summer every single person needs to be tested, which will cost $100 billion
A Nobel Prize-winning economist is calling on the government to test every person in the United States for the coronavirus to get the country back to normal this summer, for a cool $100 billion.
Paul Romer, a former World Bank chief economist who won the Nobel Prize in 2018 for modeling the US' and global economies, toldthe government should test every person every two weeks and isolate those who tested positive. He said it would probably cost about $100 billion, which might sound like a lot, but it isn't in comparison to what Congress has already spent — about $2 trillion — on dealing with the coronavirus, with more government spending to come, if parts of the country remain closed.: "It's totally in our control to fix this. We should be spending $100 billion on the testing. We should just get it going. It's just not that hard.
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