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Out of the Crisis #12: Curative founder Fred Turner and Celine Halioua on diagnostic supply chains, scaling up testing, and partnering with government

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But it's also a really interesting story, because Los Angeles was very early in rolling out drive-through testing for the City of Los Angeles, thanks to the leadership of Mayor Garcetti. Because if you can do a lot of tests in the lab but you can't actually distribute it, there's not much point. Fred Turner : Mostly in LA.

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Out of the Crisis #21: Tomas Pueyo on the hammer and the dance, political polarization, and how the pandemic will affect the way we live and work

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So I think the most interesting aspect of this article is how just mind-blowing that distribution is. So it seems like there's been this mass denial in certain countries, in certain states, driven it seems like by political leadership that somehow we can avoid these hard decisions, and it will somehow work out.