Q/A on How to Fix COVID-19 Testing with Dr. Mina: Cheap, At Home, Rapid Antigen Tests

We’re excited to host Dr. Michael Mina from the Harvard T.H Chan School of Public Health to answer questions about how cheap (approx. $1), at-home, COVID-19 tests (results in 15 minutes) could be utilized to dramatically slow the spread of this pandemic (and open up schools etc. in a faster and safer way).

Dr. Mina’s research has shown that the sensitivity of these simple saliva paper antigen tests (the technology already exists) is high enough to detect the vast majority of infectious COVID-19 and could be utilized frequently at home.

We’ll be reading your comments (from Update 98, and at MedCram.com) for COVID-19 testing questions to ask Dr. Mina. Please watch MedCram Update 98 for context on Dr. Mina’s work: https://youtu.be/h7Sv_pS8MgQ

Article featuring Dr. Mina’s ideas published in Harvard Magazine on August 3, 2020 https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2020/08/covid-19-test-for-public-health

Dr. Mina’s New York Times article about a new COVID-19 testing paradigm: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/03/opinion/coronavirus-tests.html

Dr. Mina’s research paper (pre-print): https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.06.22.20136309v2

Michael Mina, MD, Ph.D.’s bio: https://ccdd.hsph.harvard.edu/people/michael-mina

Thanks for joining the event and please spread the word to friends and colleagues.

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If you’re seeking templates and streamlined ways to contact your governor and representatives in Congress about rapid testing please visit https://www.rapidtests.org/
(thanks to Chris Said for making this site)