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#146 – Michael Mina: Rapid Testing, Viruses, and the Engineering Mindset

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The Engineering Solution to Pandemics

I think out of all the solutions I've seen, this is the obvious like engineering solution to at least the pandemic of this scale. The vaccine rollout isn't going to be as peachy as everyone is hoping. There's a lot of unknowns with this vaccine. We don't know how easily we're going to be able to roll it out. Some vaccines need really significant cold chains have very short half lives outside of that cold chain. And if we could, we could get these out tomorrow.

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