Bloom and Canning (Havard) discuss obtaining better COVID-19 infection data without universal testing by leveraging the American Community Survey (ACS)

an In The Media Appearance

"How to get better COVID-19 infection data without universal testing" - Boston Globe. 04/15/2020

David E. Bloom, professor of economics and demography and David Canning, professor of population sciences at Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discuss a scientifically sound, far less costly approach at our disposal: conducting COVID-19 tests on a representative sample of the population. The authors propose adding their pre-tested supplemental questionnaire to the extant American Community Survey administered by the US Census Bureau.

Researchers:

David E. Bloom

David Canning