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#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
Lex Fridman Podcast
Is a Rapid Test Too Expensive?
"I still can't believe this is not more popular. It's ridiculous," he says of the lack of interest in rapid tests for Ebola. "This thing right here costs less than a dollar to make with everything combined, less the swabs." The US government was able to buy hundred and fifty million of them from Abbott for five dollars a piece,. All of these tests can do the same but are only authorized as medical devices by FDA.
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