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Ep98: Mara Aspinall on Diagnostics and COVID-19

The Long Run with Luke Timmerman

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Testing Is the Thing That Should Be Done

"It feels as if people underestimate the importance of testing," she says. "I hope that we'll be testing for outbreaks way beyond even when we're getting booster shots, because that's the only way to see if this thing is going to rear its ugly head again." The tests have gone from thousands of dollars ast to five dollars a test. We've made great progress. Too slow, but we're there. How do we now leverage this? Si we get to a dollar a test, and everybody has a package home, so they test, you know, once week before they go out. That's the challenge.

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