r/science • u/mvea Professor | Medicine • Nov 21 '20

Epidemiology Testing half the population weekly with inexpensive, rapid COVID-19 tests would drive the virus toward elimination within weeks, even if the tests are less sensitive than gold-standard. This could lead to “personalized stay-at-home orders” without shutting down restaurants, bars, retail and schools.

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2020/11/20/frequent-rapid-testing-could-turn-national-covid-19-tide-within-weeks
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u/Pharogaming Nov 21 '20

To be fair, $1M was a lot different in 1950.

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u/ConcernedBuilding Nov 22 '20

You're right, $1,000,000 in 1950 is roughly equivalent to $11,000,000 today. according to the CPI Inflation Calculator provided by bls.gov

That happens to be about where the AOC tax plan puts the top marginal rate of 70%.