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People cant find at-home rapid tests, pcr texts can take several days to get results. what do you think needs to happen to get testing to a better place? >> well first of all, what we were discussing in our articles is not for the immediate time. it is a strategic plan for three to 12 months. but maetdly, we created the testing infrastructure and then when the vaccines came along, everyone thought, well, were past this and let it go away. we need to re-create a testing infrastructure. much more ...

Accessible at other places. theyre not in an emergency health situation, but they have symptoms and want to be tested. they cant get a regular drive-through test or home test, so they end up clogging what are overloaded emergency departments. emergency doctors are telling people not to come to the e.d. for routine covid testing. its the same thing. of course, the e.d. is available for anyone who thinks they need it for my emeany emergency. we want people to access care, but it is not the highest...

Screenings. for patients being told they have to wait for those, oftentimes the surgeries feel pretty essential to them. >> lets talk about the path forward. we are seeing some paths in europe. people in countries saying well move on. what is the path forward for this country? >> thank you so much for having me. i want to emphasize that the situation in europe is very different from the u.s. theyre using a vaccination plus strategy where theyre encouraging vaccinations and boosters but they also...

Critical in all this. but we dont have the testing infrastructure in place at this point. >> testing as far as screening testing is concerned can be a little bit difficult to manage. test to stay, jim, however, can be a very effective way to manage the pandemic and schools. and the cdc and we and others have shown that in recent research. >> all right. dr. danny benjamin, we know your research has been critical in all this. thanks very much for your time. we appreciate it. coming up next, new ...

Think when you see how much time and effort, i mean, days there? it still requires in many cases just to get one. how surprised are you? were still in this boat when it comes to testing? >> joe, what ill say is i am incredibly disappointed and also appalled were at this point. weve had two years to amp up testing. and the testing infrastructure in this country, and the fact that people are still waiting in line at this point is unconscionable. i looked out my window this morning at urgent care, ...

Who had covid-19. the cdc didnt add that criteria, and i think, frankly, they didnt add that criteria because there simply werent enough tests to allow people to do that. hopefully thats starting to change. we need to use the tests in the proper way. >> do you think that were relying too much on the pcr tests and we should focus more on the rapid at-home antigen tests? >> they each have their use. the antigen tests are great to tell you when youre sort of done, when you can leave isolation. that...

Long-term strategy? >> the white house saying the remarks on thursday will be about the whole of government response to covid-19. so i think youre going to expect to hear more from the president, particularly about these home tests, these 500 million tests that are supposed to be mailed out. the government has just ipged some of the first contracts for those. we havent seen the website americans are supposed to sign up to get the tests. were already approaching the middle of the month. theyve pr...

Happen is at the gym, we will have much better ventilation than they generally have now. theyll have air filters, they will have hepa filters and by the way, the prevalence of covid in the community will be much lower. >> obviously, testing has been a major issue, particularly during this omicron surge. people cant find at-home rapid tests, pcr texts can take several days to get results. what do you think needs to happen to get testing to a better place? >> well first of all, what we were discus...