episode 640: Test often, fast turnaround, with Michael Mina
Michael Mina joins TWiV to reveal why frequent and rapid SARS-CoV-2 testing is more important than accuracy, how a daily $1 rapid test could control the pandemic, and why group testing works.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, Kathy Spindler, and Brianne Barker
Guests: Michael Mina
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Links for this episode
- Michael Mina on Immune 26
- White House bypasses CDC (NY Times)
- Test sensitivity is secondary to frequency and turnaround time (medRxiv)
- Group testing for SARS-CoV-2 (medRxiv)
- Consider the cycle threshold value (Clin Inf Dis)
- MERS-CoV spike nanoparticles protect mice from infection (Vaccine)
- CoV spike protein nanoparticles induce neutralizing antibodies in mice (Vaccine)
- Letters read on TWiV 640
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
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