Omicron & Testing: Your Top 20 Questions Answered (with Michael Mina)
In the Bubble with Andy Slavitt
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Rapid Tests
i recently left harvard to help focus on this, i joined a company called emed. And what emeds is focused on right now is to get a rapid test to be reportable to public health and to have downstream action associate with it. So you can have some rapid test at your house, and you can emet it, which means use a version of the test. But importantly, they get the result to the public health agency based on a rapid test you didt home. It's not a test manufacture at all, but it's a service to enable a verification of who the person is so that they can get an actual lab report. That gets immediately put to public health
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