more effective measure. we hope what we have in place in the moment will be enough. i think the problem is that you have all of the countries acting independently when what we need is co ordination. generally speaking, travel is complex. we just heard from paul earlier about the testing side of things with each country having its own passenger locator forms, vaccine certificate requirements et cetera. so what we see is that these measures are pushing people back towards using travel professionals and travel agents, just because of that level of complexity. on the flipside, travel agents have to work a lot harder because the time between making your booking and travel, that is to be an exciting beautiful period just before your holiday when everyone was getting into the holiday spirit and it is nowjust the holiday spirit and it is now just super stressful and provokes anxiety. so those professionals do a greatjob of calming the nerves but we hear
capability on the testing side of things that the country actually has in this moment? we need to spend the money correctly. if you look tat the funding in the relief package for testing, it would actually cover schools if we only did rapid testing. we would have to do it twice a week because if you do rapid testing too infrequently, you can miss the contagious window. but if you only use the funding that congress made available for the tests that most people are aware of, the pcr tests, which tests for the genetic material, the rna afof this virus, the tes are too expensive and take too long. so, actually, for less money than congress allocated for testing, every person associated with the american school system, students, teachers, the janitors, the people driving the bus, everyone could be rapid tested once or twice a week during the year. what you d find out very quickly is who is contagious when, and
call. she s gone. i m very sorry. thinking about those teams and those patients fighting it all, describing similar symptoms as this moves across the country. matt with us from a testing side in phoenix. and matt, you ve been reporting here over the last couple of nights, people have been waiting in line for seven, eight hours in the searing heat and then they have to wait for results. some waiting several days, even weeks. reporter: up to ten days, maybe more, david. that s if they can get tested. now, epidemiologists tell us that means there is a lot of covid in the community and not nearly enough testing. the mayor of phoenix says she is asking the federal government for help, but the governor of this state, doug ducey, a state in crisis, hasn t been seen or hasn t spoken about the coronavirus in over a week. his team tells us they re planning a briefing for tomorrow. david? more than a week. all right, matt, you ll stay on it. thank you. of course, the heated debate over
found off of the internet. they would essentially be paying people to tell them to put together a portfolio on their athletic abilities. on the testing side, people were involved as well, these testing centers. there were people who would come and take the test away from what your child had done, change answers to get a particular score. you can say i think a 1600 might be flagged. let s come down and get something that could get into a school but would be much higher than what these parents thought their children could achieve on their own. a lot of money changing hands here. again, it doesn t seem that the schools knew they were being fooled when they got these higher test scores and were told that these students had athletic abilities. but a number of very elite schools are involved in this, from stanford to yale to wake forest. it runs the gamut. it s really amazing. i encourage people to go through these documents tom and i have been poring over all morning. the schools are not
red harerrings out there. understand the risks on the testing side. incredibly valuable. put a lot of time and effort in the protection side too. you talk about protecting everything. it is not just a website. you have to check social media as well. then you talk about the liability. it is not just your own liability. you ve got to distribute that to people you work with. look, most business owners don t realize they have the opportunity to transfer liability back on vendors. how do you do that? part of contract negotiation. you go to buy a product or service, make sure they re willing to guarantee that capability. all too often businesses owners are stuck with bad end of the all too often, business owners stuck with the bad end of the stick. when something bad happens, a breach happens, guy says you didn t configure it properly. they need to transfer that back to the vendor, say if your