COVID-19 Transmission is Solvable
Solvable
Pushkin Industries
4.4 • 602 Ratings
🗓️ 16 September 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Michael Mina is an epidemiologist and immunologist at the Harvard School of Public Health and a physician at Brigham and Women's Hospital.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:15.2 | This is Solvable. |
| 0:17.6 | I'm Jacob Weisberg. |
| 0:19.6 | COVID transmission is solvable. |
| 0:21.5 | It is solvable. I truly believe that. |
| 0:25.4 | That's epidemiologist Michael Minna. |
| 0:28.7 | And his optimism isn't based on all the effort going into finding a vaccine. |
| 0:33.5 | It's based on something that exists now. |
| 0:35.8 | These are used for malaria, for strep, for all these different infections. |
| 0:41.3 | They've been around for a very long time. |
| 0:43.3 | Minna is excited about small strips of paper, about the length of your pinky finger. |
| 0:48.3 | Those cheap pieces of paper would be used in millions of transmission-indicating tests. These are called antigen tests and can identify when people are contagious. |
| 0:59.0 | They can help to quickly contain community spread of the virus. |
| 1:03.0 | And they're already in production. |
| 1:05.0 | So what's the catch? |
| 1:07.0 | They aren't easy to get through the FDA. |
| 1:09.0 | How long is it going to take for me, Malcolm Gable, to be able to go to my drugstore and buy |
| 1:14.8 | a hundred of these strips for $25 and take one every morning? |
| 1:20.4 | It's not just turning out to be a very, very difficult task, but it's actually, I think, |
| 1:25.9 | inadvertently leading to potentially tens or hundreds of |
| 1:30.1 | thousands of additional deaths that we don't need to be having. |
| 1:33.6 | Michael Minna is an epidemiologist and immunologist at the Harvard School of Public Health |
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