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#70 - Dr Cassidy Nelson on the 12 best ways to stop the next pandemic (and limit nCoV)

80,000 Hours Podcast

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Pandemics - What's Next?

i'd be most excited to see a drastic new change to how we actually do diagnostic testing. This includes both the technology behind diagnostic testing as well as the protocls by which we go through a deciding who gets tested. At the moment, what we have is a system where you have to know of a pathagin first and then develop a specific test for it. That's very limited in terms of anything new that comes out. You don't need to know anything about the pathagin beforehand. So you can put a clinical sample on and it will tell you all of the dione that is in that sample. And so you'd e able to do things like aa bionth

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