Lex Fridman Podcast

#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing

Oct 29, 2021

01:53:50

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Is There a Good Public Health Test for COVID?

02:39

Is There a Time to Build a Better, Better World?

02:57

Do You Think Vaccines Are a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated?

02:22

Introduction

3min

The Discipline of Routine Is Essential for Productivity

2min

TheraBuddy - Thirgun Gen 4

3min

Is Rapid at-Home Testing a Big Part of the Solution?

3min

Are You Infectious?

4min

Is a Rapid Antigen Test Sensitive?

3min

Do You Think I Have Recently Been Infected?

4min

Is There a Good Public Health Test for COVID?

3min

Are You Infectious?

2min

10.

The FDA, in Vitro Diagnostics Division

4min

11.

Is There a Precedent for a Public Health Test?

3min

12.

Is Rapid Antigen Testing a Good Tool?

4min

13.

Is There a TSA Agent Training in Public Health?

3min

14.

Is the FDA Overriding the FDA?

4min

15.

How Do Vaccines Play With COVID?

4min

16.

The Solution to the COVID Pandemic?

5min

17.

Rapid Tests - How Much Does It Cost Per Test?

4min

18.

Can You Opt Out of Public Health Reporting?

3min

19.

Do You Have to Report Your Test Results to the Public Health Agency?

2min

20.

Is the EUA a Good Solution to Vaccine Hesitancy?

3min

21.

Is This a Biden Action Plan?

3min

22.

Do You Think Vaccines Are a Pandemic of the Unvaccinated?

2min

23.

Vaccines Aren't Stopping Transmission

5min

24.

Is Testing a Solution to COVID?

2min

25.

The Most Uncertain Thing About COVID Is the Uncertainty About the Vaccine

3min

26.

What Can People Do?

4min

27.

The End Game Is We Will Grow Out of This Virus

2min

28.

Is There a Way Out?

2min

29.

Isolating for 10 Days Is a Good Idea

2min

30.

Is Testing a Public Health Tool?

2min

31.

Meditation

4min

32.

The Goal Never Attained It

2min

33.

Is Meditation a Good Tool for Appreciating Life?

2min

34.

Meditation

2min

35.

Are You Getting Lost in It All?

2min

36.

You're Born Free, You Live Free

2min

37.

Are You Optimistic About the Pandemic?

2min

38.

Is There a Time to Build a Better, Better World?

3min

39.

Is There a Solution to COVID?

3min

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OUTLINE:
Here’s the timestamps for the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click the timestamp to jump to that time.
(00:00) – Introduction
(08:14) – At-home COVID-19 tests
(18:17) – Medical devices and FDA classification
(24:37) – Rapid test availability
(40:59) – Who is in charge of public health?
(57:38) – Testing privacy
(1:04:54) – Biden’s COVID-19 Action Plan
(1:16:08) – Uncertainty, fear, and COVID
(1:23:02) – Vaccines and herd immunity
(1:31:42) – Meditation and consciousness
(1:41:44) – Minimalism and Capitalism
(1:45:20) – The future of humanity