There is widespread agreement in the scientific and medical communities that greatly increased testing for coronavirus is essential if the U.S. is to reopen its economy as safely as possible. So far the country has fallen woefully short on this front: The Trump Administration has shirked its responsibility by trying to shift the testing issue to the states.
Brilliant mathematician and geneticist Dr. Eric Lander, 63, recently outlined what could and should be done to greatly scale up COVID-19 testing. He appeared on Amanpour & Co. on PBS; award-winning journalist and author Walter Isaacson conducted the interview.
Quotes: “I think it means that we’ll be able to track down the actual causes of disease. What most folks don’t realize we don’t know the cause of asthma, of heart disease, of diabetes or hypertension.” | “What makes evolution a scientific explanation is that it makes testable predictions. You only believe theories when they make non-obvious predictions that are confirmed by scientific evidence.”
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