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Why Test to Treat is Imperative Now

Medicine and the Machine

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Rapid Tests - What Happened?

When we started the paandemic in the us, we had no test, and we basically had promoted thi spread. We couldn't even diagnose when people were coming in with neumonia that actually was cove in neumonia for weeks if not almost a couple of months. And it's just remarkable that we don't have formally a public health test for pandemics. There are companies out there making tests that take 15 minutes to run. You could do em on your own. They they are, if they're not as sensitive as a as a diagnostic, they'll catch everyone who's a superspreader. If that's all they did, that would have been amazing.

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