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#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is the PCR Test Really Good at Detecting Contagiousness?
In this country and in most countries, we have almost entirely defunded and devalued public health period. And yet we keep evaluating tests as though the diagnostic benchmark is the gold standard where if I'm a physician, I am a physician. We don't care if somebody was infected two weeks ago. We only care about finding the people who are infectious today. But that's not public health and public health. We need to only look forward. It's kind of like a detective recreating a crime scene.
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