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Zack Cooper is an associate professor at the Yale School of Public Health and in Yale’s Department of Economics.
The weekly covid-19 testing regimen for President Trump and his staff, some of whom are tested even more frequently, is a blueprint for the rest of the country. But the White House has pushed back on experts’ calls for a massive surge in testing. The administration’s testing czar said last week that proposals to test millions of individuals daily were an “Ivory Tower, unreasonable benchmark,” and that “there is absolutely no way on Earth” millions could be tested daily.
