This doctor thinks there’s a simple way to beat back COVID-19: fast, cheap tests, taken at home every day or two.
Dr. Michael Mina thinks there’s a simple way to beat back COVID-19: fast, cheap tests, taken at home every day or two.
COVID-19, we now know, is most contagious in the first few days – just before a person shows symptoms and in the few days after symptoms start, if they ever do. Waiting until someone has symptoms before scheduling them for a test, means they won’t know they were contagious until they aren’t. On Friday, he laid out his vision to reporters on a group Zoom call. What follows is an edited version of what he said.The tests that are being deployed now are like deluxe espresso machines. These are tests that require instrumentation. There’ll be a big, big startup cost to get it going and each individual test will be expensive. They will have a difficult time getting the scale to where it needs to be to make an impact on a population level. What I really want is the instant coffee version.
Until the regulatory landscape changes, these companies have no reason to try to bring to market. So, a lot of them are just kind of sitting on it. Or they’re trying to spend more time and more money to better and better optimize tests, which might take months. My fear is that what will come out of it at the end of those months is a test that does meet FDA approval, but that’s too expensive and too complicated to scale and use for everyone.
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