Omicron & Testing: Your Top 20 Questions Answered (with Michael Mina)

In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt

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🗓️ 10 January 2022

⏱️ 70 minutes

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Testing is one of the most important and misunderstood elements of the pandemic. Andy brings it all into focus with Michael Mina, Chief Science Officer at eMed and the go-to testing expert. They break down the complex interplay between infections, symptoms, and the different kinds of tests, and answer your top 20 questions about COVID-19 testing. After listening to this episode, you'll understand when you should test, how each of the three main types of tests work, when more tests should be available, and much more.

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Check out these resources from today’s episode:

The FDA keeps track of all the antigen tests with an EUA here: https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/coronavirus-disease-2019-covid-19-emergency-use-authorizations-medical-devices/in-vitro-diagnostics-euas-antigen-diagnostic-tests-sars-cov-2#Individual%20EUAs
Read the preprint study about rapid at-home antigen tests and Omicron that Michael mentions in today’s episode: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/05/health/covid-rapid-test-omicron-detection.html
Learn more about the NIH’s Rapid Acceleration of Diagnostics initiative: https://www.nih.gov/research-training/medical-research-initiatives/radx
Find a COVID-19 vaccine site near you: https://www.vaccines.gov/
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1:12.4	Welcome to the bubble. This is your host Andy Slavitt. When I ask you the number
1:17.2	one thing on your mind right now it is testing. How do they work? How do I get one?
1:24.7	Why do they cost so much? The difference between the different types of tests.
1:29.5	When will they become more available? How to interpret them? What happens if I get
1:34.1	different results? So we have Michael Meena on the show today and I want you to if
1:39.9	you do nothing else listen to the first 20 minutes and tell all of your friends
1:45.5	who have any questions about testing. This 20 minutes is probably the key to
1:50.2	everything you need to know about testing. And after that after those 20 minutes we
1:56.7	take you into the 20 questions you have. We entertained through Twitter, voice
2:03.4	mail and email what your top questions were. We got 200 questions about
2:07.4	testing. We picked the 20 that were representative of every question. We asked
2:11.9	them to Michael and he answers them methodically, clearly one by one. Rather than
2:16.7	the long episode so I'm going to skip any other introductory comments and let
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