November Newsletter: Putin, Uber and Compensation.
Putin’s Tips on Strategy; Re-thinking employee compensation; and, Is Uber Valuable?
Putin’s Tips on Strategy; Re-thinking employee compensation; and, Is Uber Valuable?
How to cheaply and legally offer COVID testing within your company or organisation. #rapidtesting #antigen #covid19 @rapidtests @donnellystephen
Isolation based on COVID symptoms is helpful and important, but far from perfect.
Contagion can happen before symptoms or without symptoms.
An inaccurate test (say, 30% false negatives) is likely more accurate than isolating based on symptoms.
Cheap quick (15 min) antigen tests accurately detect contagiousness (often 95%+).
Governments should make emergency allowance for antigen tests that are authorised for clinical use to be used at home. They’re easy to use.
Cheap COVID antigen tests are available with high specificity and sensitivity
They are easy to use and give results in 15 mins
In the EU, they are only approved for clinical use.
Government could greatly expand testing simply by allowing people to test at home.
It’s good that vaccines are progressing. However, we should remain cautious because it is possible COVID will mutate, and the vaccine will become less effective. While the vaccine is rolling out, the higher number of infections, the easier for the vaccine to mutate.
The US economy was quite resilient to the COVID-19 pandemic on aggregate, but the effects on specific sectors – notably services – was severe.
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