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#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
Lex Fridman Podcast
Vaccine Herd Immunization
If we want to slow this virus and actually stop it from transmitting, achieve what I call herd effects, like vaccine herd immunity. If we want to do that with these tests, we need about 20 million to 40 million of them every day in the United States. There's other ways you can have two people in a household, swab each other, you know, swab themselves rather, and then mix,. you know, put the swabs into the same tube and onto one test so you can pool. So there's ways to get the efficiency gains much better.
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