This is Planet Money from NPR.

Hello and welcome to Planet Money.

I am Karen Deffen.

And today on the show, we are going to take you inside the pandemic testing system.

To try to understand what are these coronavirus tests that we've all been hearing so much about.

How do they work?

Who even makes them?

And most importantly, why is it taking so long?

But first, we want to just answer the question, what is it like to take one of these tests?

And to answer that, we are going to take you to a parking garage in Seattle with John Hamilton,

who is a science reporter at NPR.

You know, this one of these multi-level concrete parking garages, the kind you see outside

of most hospitals.

And they had actually set up a testing station in the ground floor.

A University of Washington Hospital set up their own drive-through coronavirus testing.

You may have heard of this by now.

I'm going to have you pull up and I want you to pull in.

Don't get out of your car after you depart.

Roll down the window.

Nobody ever gets out of their car.

They pull up to the next place, which is in front of these three medical tents.

And then the second nurse goes up to the window, through the open window, has people kind

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