hell no we've seen these antigen tests before they're not particularly sensitive compared to pcr and and early in the pandemic there was like pissing matches between labs who had the most sensitive pcr and it just distracted everything it really i was trying to say pretty early like we don't need sensitivity we just need frequency we just need scale we need to think differently because our only goal if we're doing frequent routine testing of asymptomatic people is not medicine it's to say do you need to isolate now and if you have a pcr test that's taking three days to return and you're like if i was currently spreading virus before i walked in here and you handed me this actually happened to me today when i walked into harvard today was my first day back into harvard since february of NUMBER_TOKEN. i go in i scan my badge and they they hand me a pcr tube and they says they say like return this you know by noon or something before you before your work day's done and i'm looking at it i'm like what is this going to do like what if i'm super spreader right now yeah you're giving me free reign to walk around and infect everyone in the school and you're gonna give me my result to tell me i did that in two days from now it doesn't doesn't really make sense so who is supposed to be so it's understandable that doctors kind of feel that way just like you said do no harm who's supposed to care about public health is it the fda is there some other organization yet to be created is it like uh just like with the military the reason we have civilian leadership when when you talk about war is it the president that's supposed to do like override fda override doctors override and basically politicians in representing the people in the state of emergency make big public health decisions like who is supposed to do it besides you on twitter it's like most people really thinking about solutions to kovid we'll mention you or will mention this idea of rapid home testing and it's it's you watch that happening this discussion that this is an obvious part of the solution and the solution is not happening so who is supposed to implement this idea i think the cdc that it should start there override the fda well i don't even think it needs to override it and that's why i think these should just be designated as a different tool so that the company is it's not overriding it's just saying look this isn't even this isn't in your jurisdiction to the fda this is just a a public health tool but the problem is the centers for medicaid medicare services designates any tool just like fda they designate these as medical devices purely because they could change somebody's behavior based on the result of one test so to change that at this point unless you get cms buy-in you know we don't have there is no designation as a public health tool but the president can just say these are public health tools these are not to be regulated as medical devices if their goal is not medicine but public health and if he does it he does have the authority to do that as president
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