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Hands-free menus being rolled out on flights.
This menu is obviously improvised today, but the virus will catalyze a hygiene 2.0 movement across Asia at a minimum.

Every affordance touched by multiple people (menus, doorknobs, elevators, faucets) will get rethought with gesture & voice.

Touchscreens will be personal only.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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This would be a great choice.

HHS/CDC/FDA has completely fallen down on the job, bottlenecking testing during a critical period.

CDC reports a total of 426 people in the US were tested as of 2/24, a rate of ~12 per day.

But South Korea was at 3000/day. We can do >100X better.
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1) CDC now reports 445 tested in the 36 days since 1/21, a rate of ~12 per day: archive.is/pz8HV

2) South Korea reported testing capability of 3000 per day on 2/8.
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This is not due to some technological limitation. The test is standard. It is a form of artificial scarcity, created by HHS/CDC/FDA bureaucracy.

Scott is very diplomatic below, but the TLDR is that FDA is denying local labs the authority to test.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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"While few in Washington have internalized it, the coronavirus is the biggest story in the world and is soon going to smash into our electoral politics in unpredictable ways."
"Affluence politics is...not paying attention to what creates wealth in the first place."

"caring about bureaucratic competence in government, and accuracy in media, not because these are nice things to have but because they are necessary to avoid immense widespread suffering."
There's so much I agree with in this excellent article by @matthewstoller!

We may continue to disagree on details of solutions, but I recognize that there is a role for well-run states here, and I believe he recognizes that biomedical innovation will likewise be critical.
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Balaji S. Srinivasan
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Two potential microeconomic effects of the virus crisis:

1) Deflation in sectors like travel or hotels as demand falls and prices plummet

2) Inflation in sectors like healthcare (rising demand) or China-sourced parts (falling supply)

That’s before printing & subsidies begin.
Unlike the financial crisis, the virus crisis is causing real deaths and physical disruption of supply chains.

You can't solve a real problem with fake money, but policy makers may try. There will likely be printing.

Hope that printed money flows into medicine & biotech.
Put another way, I strongly disagree with QE but it was a "solution" to the financial crisis that the state could execute with a few keypresses.

The virus crisis is totally different. We can only win with new technology, especially very rapid innovation in medicine and biotech.
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Conference blurb promised:

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