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Best of 2021: Are We Getting COVID Testing All Wrong?

2021/12/24
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What Next: TBD | Tech, power, and the future

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This episode originally aired in September.

In the U.S., the PCR test is the gold standard for COVID testing. Common knowledge would have it that the test is more accurate—and therefore more effective at containing the spread of the disease—than the rapid antigen test. 

What if that isn’t quite true? 

**Guest: **Michael Mina), assistant professor of epidemiology at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health 

**Host: **Lizzie O’Leary

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