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On Wednesday, the day I recorded this show, I was awake at 4am.

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

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

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

I needed to work, which meant I needed child care, which meant I needed to get my kid

a COVID test.

My baby is 14 months old.

He touches everything.

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

But we share child care with another family.

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

In this scenario, whether it's your kid, your roommate, or you, is exactly the kind of thing

that Dr. and epidemiologist Michael Minna is obsessed with.

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

symptoms that could be COVID, you could just reach into your cupboard and in five minutes

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