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That rapid test will be given to everyone, including nursing home staff and workers in pre schools. michael mina is a professor at harvard school of public health. he has been begging this drum for a month. he wrote, a goal of rapid testing is to keep nine out of ten infectious people from walking into a train station and infecting others. this is an engineering problem, not medicine. he joins me now. michael mina, lets start on the accuracy of these tests, because i think back last year they go...

Every day in business is a big day. well keep you ready for whats next. when it comes to mitigation comcast business powering possibilities. strategies to slow down the spread of this virus, one tool we should deploy at a much greater scale than we currently ares rapid testing. earlier this year, the fda

Authorized several rapid covid test for over the counter use. then as covid cases fell significantly in the spring, abbot laboratories, one of the leading producers of the tests, began reportedly destroying inventory with a limited shelf like. workers were told to take apart millions of products they had worked so hard to create, and put them in garbage bags, according to the new york times. as infections surge and students head back to school, demand for these tests are through the roof. that i...

Most states have dropped all of those nonpharmaceutical interventions. things like mask mandates or distancing or rapid testing. and we have kids going back to school. we have travel at levels that weve barely seen since the beginning of the pandemic. and we have folks going back inside in the north and northeast. we know that this virus spreads more easily in indoor locations than outdoors. we are heading towards a very difficult month to two months ahead of us. >> i mean, look at the pictures....

Its hard to believe this labor day the number of new covid-19 cases reported every day is four times higher than labor day last year. hospitalizations and deaths are also higher happening as millions of kids are returning to school. a lot to talk about today with a professor of emergency medicine at brown university. doctor, good to see you but these numbers are shocking and concerning. what are you expecting to see when it comes to covid as the result of what is happening around the country jus...

Neglected. there should be free and rapid testing so that kids can be tested before they leave the house. we really have to use the multilayered strategy because there are holes in those swiss cheese slices. on zoo all the strategies together make it effective. >> and you bring up the rapid testing thing and in the uk for instance, kids going to school, they have rapid testing done multiple times a week at home before they head out the door. why cant that happen here? it seems so simple. >> it c...

Vaccinations obviously are going to help in the long run, but its going to take awhile until we get a critical percentage of the population vaccinated. we also have to consider other measures, like testing, rapid testing. really, every family that sends a child to school should have access or free and rapid testing. and there are other mitigation strategies like ventilation we need to focus on. so all of those are important. multi-layered strategies that are crucial to keeping our children safe....

Because kids had been at home wearing mask, but this summer it has increased significantly. >> so you say we need policies that support nonpharmaceutical interventions to decrease transmission. what does that mean? >> absolutely. i think that the administration has done a strong job in terms of the vaccine rollout. but we cannot use a vaccine only strategy at this point and that is what is being put forth. we know that masks are very effective in break convenienting the spread of coronavirus so ...

Schools, and not ensuring that these environments, you know, are safe. and that means at a minimum in the community that there should be mask mandates. that means at a minimum within schools there should not only be mask mandates but vaccination mandates for anyone eligible. at a minimum schools need to receive more guidance than they are currently searching around ventilation. meaning families should receive free masking and free rapid testing. we talked about rapid testing before. but rapid te...

Stress levels are already high in workplaces across the province what with forced closures, labour s...