Designing an Interstate Compact for a Pandemic Testing Board

This paper offers a blueprint for how to design a pandemic testing board via an interstate compact.
Federalism Is an Asset

The U.S. is designed to be centralized and decentralized at the same time, which is exactly the structure we need right now to fight COVID-19. The ideological battles between conservatives and liberals always assume “either/or”—it is either the federal government or the states/localities that we need to steer policy, when actually it is both/and.
Why We Must Test Millions a Day

This paper tries to fill this gap with rough and preliminary but easily explicable calculations. These suggest that, depending on what tracing technology is used in conjunction with testing, at least millions and possibly hundreds of millions of tests per day will be needed.