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February 8, 2021
New Book Says by Engaging in Rapid Frequent Screening We Can Control the Pandemic. The Pandemic Information Solution.
Toronto - Covid-19 is a global pandemic inflicting large health and economic costs. In his previous book, The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19 (The MIT Press, 2020), economist Joshua Gans explains that those costs have been so large because governments and others have lacked the information needed to control the pandemic. Unless we know who is infectious, we can t break the chains of transmission, which results in the escalation of our problems. Pandemics, he writes, are information problems.
New book highlights need for rapid, frequent screening to control the pandemic
Covid-19 is a global pandemic inflicting large health and economic costs. In his previous book, The Pandemic Information Gap: The Brutal Economics of COVID-19 (The MIT Press, 2020), economist Joshua Gans explains that those costs have been so large because governments and others have lacked the information needed to control the pandemic. Unless we know who is infectious, we can t break the chains of transmission, which results in the escalation of our problems. Pandemics, he writes, are information problems.
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Now, in a follow-up book, The Pandemic Information Solution (Endeavor Literary Press, 2021), Gans, a professor at the University of Toronto s Rotman School of Management, outlines the solution to the information gap. By engaging in rapid, frequent screening, we can control the pandemic and restore normality. We can lower the number of cases, break chains of transmission, and make it
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As coronavirus broke out last year, 12 Canadian companies, including Air Canada and Loblaw, came together last August to start a non-profit consortium led by the University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab with the sole mission to develop and implement pilots for screening of COVID-19 at workplaces across Canada.
The full roster of the companies is: The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Genpact, Loblaw Companies Ltd. and its subsidiary Shoppers Drug Mart, Magna International Inc., MDA Corp., Air Canada, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd., Nutrien Ltd., Rogers Communications Inc., Scotiabank and Suncor Energy.
The unprecedented move, reportedly the first among companies in the developed world, was tasked with the mission to “seed the plan to bring our economy back to normality.”
Good morning!
As coronavirus broke out last year, 12 Canadian companies, including Air Canada and Loblaw, came together last August to start a non-profit consortium led by the University of Toronto’s Creative Destruction Lab with the sole mission to develop and implement pilots for screening of COVID-19 at workplaces across Canada.
The full roster of the companies is: The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board (CPPIB), Genpact, Loblaw Companies Ltd. and its subsidiary Shoppers Drug Mart, Magna International Inc., MDA Corp., Air Canada, Maple Leaf Sports & Entertainment Ltd., Nutrien Ltd., Rogers Communications Inc., Scotiabank and Suncor Energy.
The unprecedented move, reportedly the first among companies in the developed world, was tasked with the mission to “seed the plan to bring our economy back to normality.”
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