The rapid testing show

Planet Money

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4.6 • 29.8K Ratings

🗓️ 15 January 2022

⏱️ 21 minutes

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The Planet Money team fans out across the nation with one goal: to get a Covid test in 24 hours. It is easier said than done. | Subscribe to our weekly newsletter here.

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0:00.0	This is Planet Money from NPR.
0:03.2	Team Planet Money, hello.
0:08.2	Hello.
0:09.2	Thank you for joining me today and thank you for agreeing to this mission.
0:14.2	Over the next 24 hours, you will travel to strange locations.
0:18.0	You will wait in the cold or the sleet, maybe worse.
0:20.9	Today my friends, I want you to go get a COVID test.
0:25.9	All right.
0:27.9	Are you willing and able?
0:29.7	Oh yeah.
0:30.7	Yeah.
0:31.7	Yes.
0:32.7	I'm a little scared, but I'll do it.
0:33.7	Okay.
0:34.7	Good enough.
0:35.7	You guys tell our listeners where you are.
0:38.3	I'm in Santa Fe, New Mexico.
0:39.8	I'm in Portland, Oregon.
0:41.0	I'm in Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
0:42.6	Los Angeles, California, Richmond, Virginia.
0:45.0	I'm in New Pots, New York, and I'm in New York City.
0:47.8	All right.
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