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#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset
Lex Fridman Podcast
Vaccines - Is There a Bottleneck in Manufacturing?
The government should use the Defense Productions Act to build up production of small, injection molded tests. These are called lateral flow tests and you take a swab, you swab the, the front of your nose, you dunk that swab into some buffer. And if there's any virus on that buffer as it flows across, the antibodies grab that virus and it creates a little reaction with some colloids in here that cause it to turn dark. Just like a pregnancy test.
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