TWiV 647: Testing is our way out of this crisis
In this mid-week TWiV, children under 10 do transmit SARS-CoV-2, why hydroxychloroquine does not work for treating COVID-19, scale-up of diagnostic testing, explanation of LAMP testing, and listener questions.
Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Rich Condit, and Kathy Spindler
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Links for this episode
- Children do transmit infection (Emerg Inf Dis)
- NIH RADx initiative (NEJM)
- Rockefeller Foundation testing plan
- HCQ observational study (Int J Inf Dis)
- Can't kill HCQ (Science Based Medicine)
- HCQ does not inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in human lung cells (Nature)
- HCQ does not inhibit SARS-CoV-2 in nonhuman primates (Nature)
- Shut-down to stop SARS-CoV-2 (WaPo)
- Racine firefighters doing LAMP (Wired)
- LAMP (video, webinar, paper 1, paper 2)
- Letter drafts for $1 testing
- Letters read on TWiV 647
- Timestamps by Jolene. Thanks!
Kathy - Vertical Farms Fill a Tall Order by Dickson Despommier and APOD Rich - Mars in 4K
LIstener PickChristiane - ZSK - Ich habe Besseres zu tun (Official Video) Drosten Jon - The Logic of Doomsday
Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees
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