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This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. I'm Steve Merski.

For this installment of our pre-election podcast series, I spoke to Scientific Americans' senior medicine editor, Josh Fishman.

Tell me about the issues in medicine and public health that are going to be affected by this election. Obviously, the first

one is the coronavirus pandemic. Yeah, COVID is the big one. And it's going to be affected by this

election because we have the current Trump administration, which has a record that we can look at.

And that record is of handling the

coronavirus poorly, ignoring a lot of public health advice. And the results are sadly obvious to

most of the country.

We've got cases going up in 38 states.

And the reasons for this are the administration's ongoing refusal to develop a robust contact tracing force, to develop tests in the testing program that will enable

authorities, public health authorities, to quickly identify hotspots and isolate people. So step one

would be to get the virus under control.

And the Biden campaign actually has announced a plan to do that by increasing the number of contact tracers,

by starting up a national testing board with the ability and the resources to ramp up testing.

So at least we could get a handle on who's infected, where infections are spreading rapidly,

and we'll be able to direct resources to isolating that, not letting it spread.

So I think that that is the starkest and most important contrast.

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