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Podcast: Eat Move Think
Episode: The COVID-19 Rapid-Testing Explainer
Description: Rapid antigen tests are cheap, easy and deliver results in just minutes. And their mass distribution is being touted by experts as something that will be crucial to helping society return to normalcy. In this episode we interview two of their pioneers. With her pilot program in Halifax bars and restaurants, infectious disease specialist Dr. Lisa Barrett was among the first in Canada to deploy pop-up testing on a mass scale. And author Joshua Gans spearheaded the thinking behind Canada's largest rapid testing pilot, led by the Creative Destruction Lab, where Joshua is the chief economist. By exploring the...