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#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing

Lex Fridman Podcast

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How Do Vaccines Play With COVID?

A lot of excitement happened right after the first clinical trials. But we had really short-sighted vision there by not recognizing two main features, he says. One is that they might not stop transmission. Another is that new variants might come around that will break through the vaccine protective immunity. The third is that we were measuring the efficacy of these vaccines during the peak of their performance.

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