stigmatizing effect or a disincentive for people wanting to get tested if there s going to be a notion of having to isolate, the idea of people already being fatigued. i do wonder how that s going to play out. again, he described a patriotic duty for vaccination as well today. dr. hotez, the time we have left, i want you to address this point. both of you have given medical advice. you have used your expertise to try to provide information to the masses. you ve tried to make sure that that insight is conveyed appropriately. dr. fauci is calling for fox host jesse waters to be fired after he encouraged a crowd at a conservative conference to go after fauci. listen to this. now you go in for the kill shot. the kill shot with an ambush, deadly because he doesn t see it coming. this is when you say, dr. fauci, you funded risky research at a
they are mildly symptomatic or have no symptoms at all, that s really long, so if you can cut ten days to seven or ideally even five or fewer, i mean, maybe you could also have a testing system so that if you keep on doing daily tests until you test negative, maybe that s a way for us to go too. i also think right now we need to figure out a way to incentivize testing. right now we are disincentivizing testing because if somebody tests positive and now they re going to visit their relatives, they travel across the country, they test positive, that s really difficult for them. they re now stuck in another part of the country for ten days. they can t be at work. they maybe can t see their family. that s really a big problem. we need to figure out a way to make testing not only the right thing to do from the a public health standpoint, but also the we need to align the incentives so that people want to be tested. perhaps insurance companies can lower premiums for people who are testing