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#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset

Lex Fridman Podcast

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Is the FDA the End All Be All?

The FDA doesn't even have a mandate or a remit to evaluate these tests as public health tools. The CDC has really blundered by not making the right distinction, he says. "We're now in the territory of eroding medicine and all of the legal rules that we have"

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