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Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset | Lex Fridman Podcast #146

“it's a beautiful test in my opinion it works exceedingly well”
“this test here by a company called detect this is one of jonathan rothberg's companies”— guest

The guest here is Michael Mina: A Harvard professor of epidemiology and immunology and medical director at Brigham and Women's Hospital, known as a first-principles engineer-scientist and the leading advocate for mass cheap rapid antigen testing during COVID-19. Harvard epidemiologist Michael Mina makes the engineering case for cheap at-home rapid COVID tests as a public health tool the FDA refuses to unleash.

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