Health care professionals around the United States will need to perform 20 million coronavirus tests every day until late July before the country can lift its stay-at-home orders and business lockdowns, according to a new Harvard report.
“This number will need to increase over time (ideally by late July) to 20 million a day to fully remobilize the economy,” the authors wrote in the report.
Keeping up testing at that pace would cost roughly $15 billion a month, according to the report.
The report was released by Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University on Monday. It stressed the need to expand testing efforts around the country while also increasing the contact-tracing program to reopen the United States.
That number is much larger than the three million weekly coronavirus tests former Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Scott Gottlieb has said need to be conducted before reopening the country.
So far, the COVID-19 Tracking Project has reported 4,003,551 coronavirus tests have been conducted around the United States.
“This Roadmap is the only approach to BOTH contain the virus and ramp back up to vibrant economic life. And, in the long term, it allows us to build an infrastructure of pandemic resilience that will serve us well when the next health crisis or disaster hits, while improving community health,” Harvard University researcher Danielle Allen in a statement.
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