1. So I am finding it gobstopping that we still don't have a serious proposal on the table from either the Administration or Congress to rapidly and massively scale up ubiquitous Covid testing so that as shelter in place efforts get Covid under control, we can restart economy.

2. @paulmromer proposed this several weeks ago in @nytimes and again in @WSJ . There seems to be broad consensus among economists and public health experts that this is what will be necessary. We know from South Korea that it works. https://www.wsj.com/articles/testing-is-our-way-out-11585869705

3. That doesn't just mean being able to test everyone who thinks they may be sick (which we still are unable to do). It means testing everyone all the time - weekly or even more frequently. If you want to go to a restaurant or fly on a plane, you go get tested.

4. This will be a precondition for reopening the economy and keeping it open until there is a vaccine. Without it, a) many people won't go back to workplaces or shops or travel and b) infections will quickly spread again once restrictions are lifted, necessitating new shutdowns.

5. Neither policy-makers at state and federal level or markets seem to get this. Without a massive scale up of testing there can be no recovery anytime soon. If we don't take action NOW to scale up testing, in other words, there will be no V shaped recovery.

6. So where is the plan? Where is the legislation? Who has thought about how many test kits and drive through test centers and health workers and lab techs we need so that 2-3 months from now, we are ready?

7. Along with providing necessary resources for treatment, this should be job one for the federal government right now. But what we get instead is happy talk about back to normal in June and V-shaped recovery and infrastructure bills. FIN