How Testing Will Help Us Get Back to Regular Life

The Brian Lehrer Show | Apr 10, 2020

Paul Romer, economist, professor at New York University and former chief economist at the World Bank, and Dr. Rajiv Shah, president of the Rockefeller Foundation and USAID administrator from 2009-2015, draw on their experience to explain how widespread testing is the way to get the country back to work, and end disruptive social distancing.

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