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!

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Intro music is by Ronald Jenkees

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