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#216 – Vincent Racaniello: Viruses and Vaccines
Lex Fridman Podcast
Vaccines and Good Testing
I think there's just economic pressures against it. Because so much investment was placed on the vaccines, obviously there's an incentive mechanism where the company's lobbyists and all those. There's this machine that says arguing for tests is difficult because a thing that's worked for most severe viruses in the past is vaccines. Why the hell would you need tests? At that time, like why the hell do you need tests when we can be working on vaccines? It seems like the obvious thing to be working as a vaccine from their perspective, but it's not obvious at all to me. And then obviously, Makameena makes that point brilliantly and still there's very little excitement around that. But he
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