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Chasing Life

The Latest on Testing

Chasing Life

CNN

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Mental Health

4.58K Ratings

🗓️ 5 May 2020

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

We've addressed early questions about testing for Covid-19, but plenty remain. CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta explains the latest on the different types of coronavirus tests and how well they work. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

How easy will it be to get antibody testing at some point in the near future?

0:07.1

What will that test tell us?

0:09.4

Are the tests actually accurate?

0:12.2

When you were a kid, did you ever make one of those pinhole cameras where you cut a little

0:16.9

hole into a piece of cardboard and then look through it?

0:20.3

Well in some ways that's kinda how we're looking at the coronavirus nowadays.

0:24.6

Through a tiny little window.

0:27.2

Part of the reason we haven't been able to get a bigger picture is because this is a new

0:31.6

coronavirus and we're learning as we go along.

0:35.0

We have also had inadequate testing across the nation.

0:38.8

So the inability to know the true extent of this outbreak becomes a major barrier in terms

0:44.2

of getting the country back to work.

0:46.5

We need clear vision and so far we haven't had that.

0:51.2

I'm Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN's Chief Medical Correspondent.

0:54.9

And this is coronavirus, fact versus fiction.

1:03.4

There are currently only two types of coronavirus tests available in the United States.

1:08.9

Because I'm a healthcare worker who still takes care of patients in the hospital, I've

1:12.7

had both of them.

1:13.7

I'm gonna give you a little poke over here, okay?

1:16.3

Okay.

1:17.3

Poke.

1:18.3

You doing okay?

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