The following is a conversation with Michael Minna.

He's a professor at Harvard doing research on infectious disease and immunology.

The most defining characteristic of his approach to science and biology is that of a first

principles thinker and engineer focused not just on defining the problem, but finding the

solution.

In that spirit, we talk about cheap, rapid at home testing, which is a solution to COVID-19

that to me has become one of the most obvious, powerful, and doable solutions.

That frankly should have been done months ago and still should be done now.

As we talk about its accuracy, it's high for detecting actual contagiousness and hundreds

of millions can be manufactured quickly and relatively cheaply.

In general, I love engineering solutions like these, even if government bureaucracies

often don't.

With respect science and data, it respects our freedom, it respects our intelligence, and

basic common sense.

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As a side note, let me say that I've always been solution oriented, not problem oriented.

It saddens me to see that public discourse disproportionately focuses on the mistakes

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