Is Faster Better?

Social Distance

The Atlantic Monthly Group, LLC

Health & Fitness, News, Science

4.6 • 935 Ratings

🗓️ 9 September 2020

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

The path out the pandemic is a vaccine. Short of that, it could be rapid testing. And the sooner, the better ... right? Sarah Zhang and Alexis Madrigal explain how close we are to each solution — and how much of a solution each may be if rushed. Support this show and all of The Atlantic’s journalism by becoming a subscriber at www.theatlantic.com/supportus Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey Jim.
0:05.0	Hi, Catherine.
0:07.0	You're still in California?
0:09.0	Yes, I am, and in fact, guess who I just accidentally bumped into the other day.
0:15.0	Mm.
0:16.0	In the Bay Area, I'm going to go with Mark Zuckerberg.
0:20.0	Um, no.
0:21.0	Alexis Matrigal.
0:23.0	Oh wow.
0:24.0	I was on a hiking trail, you know, like huffing and puffing my way up and he like absolutely shot by running.
0:31.0	Small world and this is completely unplanned.
0:34.0	Completely unplanned.
0:35.0	It's just, you know, the trails of the East Bay.
0:39.0	You never know who you're going to run into.
0:41.0	Well, he probably told you some interesting things, so maybe...
0:44.0	Well, we actually didn't talk enough, so we should actually call him because I have a lot of
0:49.4	questions that I didn't get to ask him while he was... I mean, he was clearly like, you know, moving a lot faster. Yeah he's like sorry
0:55.0	I can't get the heart rate down. Yeah exactly. Good seeing you see you again in a few
0:58.9	years. We should call him today but I have have a question first before we do, which is, there was a news item last
1:06.3	week. I heard that the CDC is telling states to prepare for a vaccine in early November.
1:15.0	What does that mean?
1:18.0	Yeah, well, we should talk to someone to figure that out but I'm cautiously
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