This Simple Solution Could Sharply Lower COVID-19 Infections, Harvard Medical Doctor Says

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🗓️ 9 February 2021

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

Dr. Michael Mina, assistant professor of epidemiology and immunology at the Harvard School of Public Health, joins “The Daily Signal Podcast” to discuss how rapid-result tests could dramatically decrease COVID-19 cases and allow much of the economy to reopen.

And Mina, who also is associate medical director of microbiology at Harvard Medical School, breaks down why these tests haven't been made widely available, but should be now.

We also cover these stories:

Lawyers for former President Donald Trump demand that his impeachment be dismissed, as the Senate impeachment trial is set to begin Tuesday.
House impeachment managers release a fiery brief of their own, saying that “even after he incited insurrection, President Trump took numerous steps on January 6 that further incited the insurgents to escalate their violence and siege of the Capitol."
Rep. Ron Wright, R-Texas, just reelected to a second term, dies after contracting COVID-19. He also had battled lung cancer.

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0:00.0	This is the Daily Signal Podcast for Tuesday, February 9th. I'm Kate Trinco.
0:10.1	And I'm Rachel DelJudis. My colleague at the Daily Signal and Co-host of the Daily Signal
0:15.0	Podcast, Virginia Allen, interviews Dr. Michael Minnan, an assistant professor of epidemiology
0:21.0	and immunology at the Harvard School's Public Health and an associate medical director of
0:26.0	microbiology at Harvard Medical School to discuss how rapid response COVID-19 tests could
0:31.9	dramatically decrease COVID-19 cases. And don't forget if you're enjoying this podcast,
0:37.4	please be sure to leave a review or if I start reading an Apple podcast and encourage others
0:42.0	to subscribe. Now onto our top news.
0:44.5	Lawyers' Performer President Donald Trump are demanding that his impeachment be dismissed
0:57.2	as the impeachment trial is set to begin on Tuesday. David Shown and Bruce Castor,
1:02.2	who are representing Trump in the Senate hearing, offered a 78-page document in defensive Trump,
1:08.4	and say that the impeachment is unconstitutional. The article's impeachment presented by the House
1:14.1	is unconstitutional for a variety of reasons, any of which alone would be grounds for immediate dismissal,
1:20.4	shown in Castor right. Taken together, they demonstrate conclusively that indulging House Democrats
1:26.0	under for this political theater is a danger to our public, democracy and the rights that we hold dear.
1:32.8	The House impeachment managers released a fiery brief of their own on Monday. The Democrats
1:38.0	wrote, even after he incited insurrection, President Trump took numerous steps on January 6th
1:44.6	that further incited the insurgents to escalate their violence in siege of the Capitol.
1:50.2	The House managers also stated, President Trump's repeated claims about a rigged and stolen
1:56.1	election were false, no matter how many contortions his lawyers undertake to avoid saying so.
2:02.6	When President Trump demanded that the armed, angry crowd at his save America rally fight like hell,
2:09.2	or you're not going to have a country anymore, he wasn't urging them to form political action
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