take-home tests and now requiring all private insurance companies to reimburse individuals who purchased those take-home tests. they think that will go a long way towards encouraging more people to do the take-home tests but ultimately the number one message coming out of the white house today is around the issue of booster shots. we saw dr. fauci in the briefing room yesterday saying he wouldn t wait for a booster. if you re eligible, what is most concerning, millions of seniors who are eligible and haven t done that and there will be a major marketing push around that. thank you very much for being with me this morning. for more i m joined by dr. celine yonder served on president biden s transition team and dr. david bannick, head of infection prevention at uconn health. thank you for being with me. the white house banned travelers from south africa and now the plan seems to be more boosters and more vaccines and more testing for travelers, but what about this plan is different f
doing? well, i think the testing requirements are tightening up, so up until now, you could have been tested within 72 hours of travel, that s been tightened up to 24 hours. this is really a move that should have been made back in the spring or summer with the emergence of the delta variant, which has a short incubation period, so the challenge is whether the delta variant or the omicron variant, you could test negative 72 hours prior to flying, but be incubating the virus and positive on the day of flight. so this tightening up of that window is to address that gap, to make sure that people who are boarding planes are truly safe to fly. dr. bannick, you re in connecticut, seeing a surge of cases. how concerned are you about the impact of the omicron variant and what are you seeing? so thanks for having me on. i think the omicron variant has
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