/PRNewswire/ The Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington today announced Mukteshwari "Mukti" Bosco, CEO and.
if you are okay, you can take off that mask, potentially. in this case, you are contagious up to, potentially, as long as eight days. so contagiousness is for a longer period of time. the more people recognize that, you are fully tested and fully vaccinated, you can take off that mask better. when that rapid test goes from positive to negative. if there is enough to infect there is enough to detect. i did make that up. someone else did. but it s a good truism to live by. vin, thanks as always and for helping us understand these complicated matter. vin gupta is an msnbc contributor and critical care pulmonologist in a faculty member at the institute for health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington. as always, thanks for your time. we have one more story tonight, stay with us. have one more story tonight stay with us stay with us and when you book and pay throug you re covered by our happiness check out angi.com today. angi. and done.
can and should do to protect ourselves against this current version of the virus. and i know who just ask. joining us is dr. vin ghouta, an msnbc contributor a critical you would think i would know this, right? a critical care pulmonologist and a faculty member at the institute for health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington. we have been speaking for over two years now. doctor dr. gupta, thank you for being here. at one level, we ve not had the level of tension that we ve had in march and april and may in 2020. on the other hand, we have this new strain. and we are a little confused as to what we are supposed to do about it. ali, it s great to see you, good evening. it s true. and the fact that really worries me is that three and four adult americans that are eligible for the next booster shot number three, that next booster shot have decided that they are not
infections but they don t have symptoms. turns, out for ba.5, for all your viewers out there, i get this question a lot you can be contagious for a longer period of time. eventually, [inaudible] the era of the delta variant was five days and then he would test positive on day zero. if you are okay, you can take off that mask, potentially. in this case, you are contagious up to, potentially, as long as eight days. so contagious this is for a longer period of time. the more people recognize that, you are fully tested and fully vaccinated, you can take off that mask better. when that rapid test goes from positive to negative. if there is enough to infect there is enough to detect. i did make that up. someone else did. but it s a good truism to live. by vin, thanks for always, and helping us understand these complicated matter. vin ghouta is a critical care pulmonologist in a faculty member at the institute for health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington. as always, t
and a faculty member at the institute for health metrics and evaluation at the university of washington. we have been speaking for over two years now. dr. gupta, thank you for being here. at one level, we ve not had the level of tension that we ve had in march and april and may in 2020. on the other hand, we have this new strain. and we are a little confused as to what we are supposed to do about it. ali, it s great to see you, good evening. it s true. and the fact that really worries me is that three in four adult americans that are eligible for the next booster shot number three, that next booster shot have decided that they are not going to get it. or in some cases if they are eligible for that fourth shot they are not going to get it. that is concerning in this era of a more transmissible variant. because, ali, come the