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TBD | Are We Getting COVID Testing All Wrong?

What Next | Daily News and Analysis

Slate Podcasts

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.32.4K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

In the U.S., the PCR test is the gold standard for COVID testing. Common knowledge would have it that the test is more accurate—and therefore more effective at containing the spread of the dease—than the rapid antigen test.  What if that isn’t quite true?  Guest: Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health  Host: Lizzie O’Leary Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:58.3

I sat in bed, listening to my toddler sniffle pathetically on the baby monitor.

1:03.9

He would sneeze and then kind of whine and rearrange himself and go back to sleep.

1:08.9

My husband was out of town and I sat in the dark running through my options.

1:14.1

I needed to work, which meant I needed childcare, which meant I needed to get my kid a COVID test.

1:20.8

My baby's 14 months old. He touches everything.

1:24.3

So the odds were very good that it was just a cold.

1:26.8

But we share childcare with another family.

1:29.9

And on the off chance he was positive, I couldn't put everyone else at risk.

1:34.4

In this scenario, whether it's your kid, your roommate, or you,

1:39.1

is exactly the kind of thing that Dr. and epidemiologist Michael Minna is obsessed with.

1:44.6

Imagine if within moments of noticing that your toddler was, how the runny nose had some symptoms

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