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Including isolation periods. something that stuck out to me was that dr. walensky said there was no difference for isolation periods if youre vaccinated or unvaccinated. of course, it moved down to the five days of isolation if someone contracts covid, assuming that they have no symptoms or their symptoms are subsiding. they go onto say that for the following five days after thatsulation ends, continue to wear a mask even at home around other family members. theres also been questions about the ...

Of contagiousness does go down. you asked about day five, wolf, there. roughly a third of people, 31% are still considered contagious at day five. now, lets say your friend doesnt get a test, so, you know, he or she may not know whether they are contagious. now, thats a pretty significant number, pretty significant likelihood they could still potentially be spreading it to other people. despite the fact they have been in isolation for five days. thats where the testing i think is so important. a...

Schools open. final quick question for you, ms. oconnell. talking about in home tests. these are antigen tests. there is interesting rsearch about the ability to make pcr tests at home and theres companies, including one in connecticut, that believe with additional investment to bring those tests to scale, we could get pcr tests into families hands at home in a cost that is at or below what companies are currently charing for antigen tests. >> we have worked closely with several manufacturers th...

Oconnell. talking about in-home tests. a lot of focus on in-home tests today. antigen tests, there are some interesting research going on about the ability to make pcr tests available at home and there is companies all over the country including one in connecticut that believe that with some additional investment to bring those tests to scale we could get pcr tests into familys hands at home for a cost that is at or below what were currently charging our companies are currently charging for anti...

Kicking in a different gear when it comes to okay, this is where were at and more importantly, doesnt look like covid is going anywhere anytime soon, right? there was this mindset of defeating the virus. especially last summer, that we were going to have freedom from the virus, but it looks like when you talk to experts, it might be endemic instead of pandemic. that is something were still figuring out. so the administration has had to change tactics. like how many tests can we give school so pe...

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Hospital. it is absolutely targeting those groups. i do think that there is a high risk that as a pandemic continues, all of us will end up being exposed to many of us will end up being infected. >> new questions when we are testing for omicron, what is the best test? everybody has been doing the nasal swabs. maybe on occasion you may get the deep swab, but now there is a move to, well, it infects mostly the throat. it would be better to do a throat swab or a saliva test. to your knowledge, what...

Mentioned, cases are dropping and also americans are starting to get these free at-home rapid test kits from the federal government. theyre just starting to arrive in the mail. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you so much. joining me is dr. wesley long, the medical director of diagnostic microbiology at houston methodist. your hospital has already identified several cases of this new stealth variant of omicron. what can you tell us about it? >> jose, i can tell you thus far weve only detected two cases ...

This son of omicron? >> to the best of our knowledge, the antigen tests that are popular in the u.s. can detect the ba.2 as well. its a way to make sure the tests approved in the u.s. can detect it. we can confidently say our pcr tests that we use here at houston methodist are able to dedeath ba.2 without any difficulty. >> what do we know about ba.2 versus omicron original? >> the ba.2 variant is closely related to the original omicron, and they both emerged around the same time and were first ...

Are not as sensitive or at least they miss some of the positive results in the first 36 hours. when a lot of these tests were first approved, they were approved under an authorization that required people to check three separate tests two to three days apart. thats a good practice to use again here. because folks need to know that some of these antigen tests miss those very earliest cases, but if you check twice, its much more likely youll pick yourself up if youre positive. >> dr. mario ramirez...