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One man decides there is nowhere he’d rather be in the middle of a pandemic than on a cruise ship — whatever the consequences.

By the end of last year, if you needed a coronavirus test, you could get one. But when vaccines arrived, focus shifted.

Many of the vaccinated felt like they didn’t need tests and demand took a nosedive. Testing sites were closed or converted into vaccination sites. And Abbott Laboratories, a major test manufacturer, wound up destroying millions.

However, with the surge of the new Omicron variant, which is less susceptible to vaccines, demand for testing is back — and it is outstripping supply.

Guest: Sheryl Gay Stolberg, a Washington correspondent, covering health policy for The New York Times.

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Background reading: 

• President Biden came into office vowing to make coronavirus testing cheap and accessible, but matching supply with demand has been a persistent problem.

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In this 85th in a series of live discussions with Bret Weinstein and Heather Heying (both PhDs in Biology), we discuss the state of the world through an evolutionary lens.

In this episode, Bret begins with a monologue on YouTube, Google, the allegory of the cave, David and Goliath, and more, before we switch off YouTube and stream solely from Odysee. We then discuss what counts as a positive Covid test from the CDC’s perspective, and why their answer differs depending on whether you’ve been vaccinated or not. How will we know how many vaccine breakthrough cases are happening given how the data are being handled? We discuss OSHA’s move to obscure data on breakthrough cases as well. We discuss a new paper (Walach et al 2021) that finds that, in a field study out of Israel, the mass vaccination campaign saved three lives for every two people who died from vaccinations. We discuss PEG (polyethylene glycol), which is an ingredient in far too many things, including the mRNA vaccines, and turns out to be toxic to tadpoles. And we briefly discuss the spike protein crossing the blood-brain barrier, before finally talking a bit about chapter 2 of our forthcoming book, A Hunter-Gatherer’s Guide to the 21st Century, and reading an excerpt on the origin of primates.

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Mentioned in this episode:

New York Times, August 2020, on why PCR test results for Covid don’t necessarily mean what we think they mean:
 https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/29/health/coronavirus-testing.html

 CDC’s Covid-19 Vaccine Breakthrough Case Investigation and Reporting: https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/covid-19/health-departments/breakthrough-cases.html
COVI

Case counts in perspective, a suspect stat from the US, and life lessons from insects.

We unpick the A-level algoshambles, discover why 1.3 million Covid tests disappeared from the government's statistics last week, and for reasons that may become clear, we examine the chance of being hit by a bus. Plus, what does poker teach us about the role of randomness in our lives?

Unlike its Nordic neighbours, Sweden never imposed a lockdown to stem the spread of coronavirus. Tim Harford speaks to statistician Ola Rosling to find out what the results have been.

Presenter: Tim Harford Producer: Jo Casserly

Picture: A woman wearing a face mask stands at a Stockholm bus stop where a sign reminds passengers to maintain a minimum social distance. Sweden 25 June 2020. Credit: EPA/ Stina Stjernkvist

Two members of President Trump's Opening Our Country Council, Dr. Scott Gottlieb, former FDA Commissioner, and Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, join us this week to discuss how to save businesses around the country, the consequences of the lockdowns, the amount of risk to anticipate when going back to work, the effectiveness of testing and contact tracing, how asymptomatic carriers affect us, and much more.

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As the entire economy freezes, the feds open up the spigot; we examine what comes next; and the media won’t stop labeling Trump a racist over his use of the term “Chinese virus.”

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