A call for quick coronavirus testing, and building bonds with sports

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🗓️ 13 August 2020

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Staff Writer Robert Service talks with host Sarah Crespi about a different approach to COVID-19 testing that might be useful in response to the high numbers of cases in the United States. To break chains of transmission and community spread, the new strategy would replace highly accurate but slow polymerase chain reaction (PCR) tests with cheaper, faster tests that are less accurate but can be administered frequently. Such tests cost between $1 and $3 compared with more than $100 for diagnostic PCR tests and give results in less than 30 minutes instead of days. Read all of our coronavirus coverage here. Also this week, Salma Mousa, a postdoctoral fellow at Stanford University, joins Sarah to talk about an experiment that added Muslim players to teams in a Christian soccer league in northern Iraq. The goal of the study was to see whether this type of social contact would change how the Christians—a threatened minority in the region—behaved toward Muslims, on and off the field. This week’s episode was produced with help from Podigy. Listen to previous podcasts. About the Science Podcast Download a transcript (PDF). [Image: Kate Brady/Flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] Authors: Sarah Crespi; Robert Service Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:05.7	with usage and settings. Welcome to the science podcast for August 14th, 2020.
1:16.6	I'm Sarah Crespi.
1:18.1	First up this week, staff writer Robert Service talks about a different approach to COVID-19 testing
1:23.6	that might be useful in response to the high number of cases in the U.S.
1:28.2	Next, we have researcher Salamusa.
1:30.5	We talk about her experiment that looks at how social contact between Christians and Muslims
1:35.3	on soccer teams in northern Iraq could have an effect on tolerance.
1:42.6	First up this week, we have staff writer Robert Service. He's going to talk about rapid coronavirus testing.
1:49.0	Hi, Bob. Hi, Sarah. You write about rapid testing this week because even though we've ramped up from maybe 100,000 tests per week in March to now 5 million per week. This is all in the U.S.
2:04.2	There's still a lot of lag in when people get results, and we're seeing a lot of uncontrolled
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