We Need 1 Million Tests a Week

Just as important, we need a legion of public-health workers to identify all of the infected person’s close contacts, check them for symptoms, and test them.
The federal and state governments need to give workers license to conduct tests, report results, and impose quarantines without bureaucracy getting in the way.
Our health-care system usually depends on insurance to pay for tests because the benefit is thought to be for the individual.
But we’re also going to need new kinds of tests.
In the future, we will also need antibody testing, which will allow us to learn who has been infected in the past and recovered.