tell your little girl merry christmas. but for one i would say not only for testing but also the vaccination what we know is there is a disparity of school nurses. 1 in 5 of u.s. public schools do not have a school nurse. who is going to vaccinate those children? we have to think about this in a different way. the mobile vans that used to litter the streets in church parking lots and barber shops have largely disappeared. we have to go back to that, go back to what we looked like unfortunately a year ago because our covid cases are looking like they did a year ago if not worse. reinventing that. and with the testing strategy it has to be more than just once a week we are testing these children. if we know omicron is doubling within every two days, right? we have to make sure we are testing them throughout the week. i will certainly tell my little girl that the dr. ebony jade hilton told her a merry christmas. thank you, doctor, for sharing your insight this evening.
tests were negative a few days later they have come down, tested positive in the case several people this weekend severe like flu symptoms. can omicron invade the rapid test can there be false positives or false negatives? the false negative is really what we see in the presymptomatic phase. that is before you have symptoms the rate of a false negative can be as low as 50%. so if you are very concerned you might been exposed to moving to test twice if using the rapid antigen test you buy at the pharmacy. they have been to gatherings or people are vaccinated they beat triple fax with the booster and they test negative and think they are okay. but you are saying that may not necessarily be so? that is right we have to move to a selective testing strategy in the u.s. we cannot universally be testing everybody frequently who were not going to make any changes to their behavior who are around me and say people who are not going to come down
hutch this is bbc news. the headlines: the first death in the uk with the omicron variant of coronavirus is announced as the booster programme is expanded to combat its spread. the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus, i think that s something we need to set on one side, and just recognise the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population. home lateral flow test kits are currently unavailable on the uk government website a day after the government changed its testing strategy. and we ll be putting all your questions on the omicron variant and the booster campaign to experts in your questions answered at 2:30. you can get in touch on twitter using the hashtag bbcyourquestions,
this is bbc news. the headlines: the first death in the uk with the omicron variant of coronavirus is announced as queues of people wait to get booster jabs in england. the best thing we can do is get our boosters, we are opening up centres across the country and we are getting the army to help with logistics and we are expanding in every possible way. home lateral flow test kits are currently unavailable on the uk government website a day after the government changed its testing strategy. from today people in england are being asked to work from home if they can but businesses are worried it will hit the crucial christmas market. rescue teams search for survivors after tornadoes in the united states that have
home lateral flow test kits are currently unavailable on the uk government website a day after the government changed its testing strategy. and we ll be putting all your questions on the omicron variant and the booster campaign to experts in your questions answered at 2.30. you can get in touch on twitter using the hashtag #bbcyourquestions, or e mail at yourquestions@bbc.co.uk. from today, people in england are being asked to work from home if they can but businesses are worried it will hit the crucial christmas market. rescue teams search for survivors after the string of tornadoes in the united states that have killed almost 100 people. a bbc investigation finds networks of breeders are offering to mutilate puppies, to follow a social media trend.