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Podcast: The Future of Everything
Episode: Manu Prakash: How to beat a pandemic on a budget
Description: Manu Prakash was in France when COVID-19 took hold throughout the world. There, the Stanford bioengineer, famous for âfrugal scienceâ like his $1 field microscope made of paper, witnessed the challenges a relatively well-resourced nation experienced holding back the disease. His head was soon filled with visions of the nightmare awaiting developing nations, given that a COVID-19 test in developing countries can cost as much as $400.In a flurry, Prakash jotted down an engineering manifesto of sorts for a worldwide revolution in open-source, inexpensive healthcare solutions. As he saw it, here were three areas of greatest need â diagnostics, protective e...