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    1. Your regular reminder that a prominent reason America has no systematic testing (the only way out of the Coronavirus crisis at present) is because the President's son-in-law (who runs most government policy) thinks too many tests would spook the markets. ft.com/content/97dc7de6-940b-11ea-abcd-371e24b679ed
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  1. …in reply to @augustf
    "Jared [Kushner] had been arguing that testing too many people, or ordering too many ventilators, would spook the markets and so we just shouldn’t do it... That advice worked far more powerfully on [Trump] than what the scientists were saying."
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