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Dr. Atul Gawande On The Coming Ease Of At-Home Testing

Dr. Atul Gawande On The Coming Ease Of At-Home Testing

As anti-COVID measures go, testing and tracing seems to be the best fit for the American psyche. So where's the science, and is there enough capacity for a meaningful testing regime?

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast

September 9, 202026m 9s

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As anti-COVID measures go, testing and tracing seems to be the best fit for the American psyche. So where's the science, and is there enough capacity for a meaningful testing regime?

On Today's Show:
Atul Gawande, staff writer for The New Yorker, surgeon at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston and professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, argues testing capacity in the United States could be scaled up to control the coronavirus pandemic, with effective national leadership.