Director of Harvard’s Global Health Institute: ‘We Cannot Open Up Our Economy Without Adequate Testing’

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JHA: “We cannot open up our economy without adequate testing. Let’s just think about what would happen if we did. Let’s say May 1st, we open the doors, everybody is back to work. It’d be great for a few weeks. For a few weeks, we wouldn’t notice it at all. And then you’d see massive flare-ups of cases across the country. All the hard work that Americans are doing will have been wasted. We will have to shut down again, and we will shut down for much longer. So if that’s what we want to do, then yeah, sure, let’s open up May 1st without adequate testing. But the right answer is — and, again, to quote Dr. Fauci, we don’t make the timeline. The virus makes the timeline. So let's wait until the viral levels are really low in our country. Let’s have a very robust testing system. Then let’s open up slowly. And I actually think we can stay open, which is what Americans want. We do not want to have to shut down again.”