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Finding an at-home COVID test has been impossible for many, but that search will soon get easier thanks to the FDA authorization of a new at-home test and that the federal government will spend another $1 billion to speed up production of the tests.

Broome Executive Jason Garnar: “We’re all tired of COVID” but the tracers are just doing their job.

Transition team. she also hosts a weekly podcast on the impact of the pandemic called "epidemic." so, doctor, lets put it this way. if you were putting together a pamphlet for how we should behave in family settings this coming holiday season and it had to go to the printer tomorrow, so some of it had to require you looking into the future, what would your guidance be? >> brian, my guidance would be, number one, number two and number three, get vaccinated. if you are not yet vaccinated, please g...

What would your guidance be? >> brian, my guidance would be, number one, number two and, number three, get vaccinated. if you are not yet vaccinated, please get vaccinated. this is the best way for all of us to celebrate safely over the holidays with their family and friends. and a couple of other things i would add to that list, number four, number five, number six. would be testing. rapid testing is something you can do at home. this is not widely available last year, but would be more availab...

Broome Executive Jason Garnar: “We’re all tired of COVID” but the tracers are just doing their job.

As a pediatrician by training, the immense challenges our health care providers, teachers, and parents face hits close to home. We owe it to them, and to our nation’s children, to get this right — right away.

This is important, just the pfizer vaccine, could be given to people over the age of 65 and people at high risk as a booster shot. that decision hasnt come yet, but the fda is expected to make it in the coming days, chris. >> dr. patel, i want to go to you, because of where she is right now. the testing and i know that, you know, i live in new york city, so on my way home, walking home from work, i can stop and get a test. thats no problem. thats not the case, thats particularly not the case for...

Orange means you have a substantial community transmission. thats not great, you would rather be moderate or low, but in california, gavin newsom just ran a campaign to say, im right, the other states are wrong. is he right, or do you say its one week, lets look at the data moving forward? >> as a physician and public health official, i never look at just one week of data. but i do think california, like other states around the country, vermont, maine, there are a few others, have combined relat...

Their kid gets a cut and you have to go to the doctor to clean up that cut and put a band-aid on it, most people would just not go with a band-aid and you would get more infections. accessibility is the number one thing we need here. i want to see a day where people, especially during this pandemic, can just go pull one out of their cupboard without thinking about it. and say, hey, my kid is not feeling well, before they go to school, lets use a simple rapid test, a 32nd test, and be down with i...

Really quite weak. we have had time to build up a robust infrastructure. i will say, especially for rapid testing, ive mentioned this before, we really need to get rapid at home testing in the hands of every household. people should be able to access them and have access to them free. because they are quite expensive when you buy them in the store. you get to test for about $25. we also need to pay attention, obviously, to ventilation in buildings. especially in offices and schools, as we return...