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Down to ten, so we want to make sure that that is working as we would expect it to be. but that brings us back to lateral flow tests. for the system to work, there has to be enough of them to go around. labour says the government needs to get a grip and provide enough tests. catherine burns, bbc news. and cathjoins me now. a huge amount of pressure on the testing system at the moment? notjust an not just an issue notjust an issue with lateral flow test but also pcr test. at one stage this mornin...

Tests when you knew this variant was on its way? >> exactly. mollie, he was given the most advanced testing system in the world. this was a novel virus. there were no tests when president trump inherited this. he got covid-19 in the united states coming over from china, there were no tests. he developed more tests and administered more tests than western europe combined by last fall for that is impressive. why didnt president biden keep it up? >> its really important to go back and think about w...

They are mildly symptomatic or have no symptoms at all, thats 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 thats 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 theyre going to visit their relatives, they t...

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 thats 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 theyre going to visit their relatives, they travel across the country, they test positive, thats really dif...

Cases, but also hospitalisations and deaths. it takes a while for people who get sick from coronavirus to turn up in at the figures. it really doesnt look back to the turn of the month. the official model from scotland is also quite low, thats why i think nicola sturgeon is referring to the bleeding and case data with whats happening from omicron. brute data with whats happening from omicron. ~ ., , , omicron. we have seen the highest number of daily _ omicron. we have seen the highest number of...

Epicenter of the new wave. high school students studying in some of californias largest school districts will no longer be allowed to fail. thats because schools are banning anything below a c. teachers in districts like l.a., oakland and sacramento are no longer allowed to give out ds or fs for poor work. students are allowed to retake test or do the work again. those behind the new testing system says it helps black latino and low income students who have been hurt by the pandemic. guys over t...

>> if you look, the numbers are very minuscule compared to what it was. its dying out. >> we followed them with this terrible china virus. and we are likewise getting under control. >> that was july when about 50,000 people per day were being diagnosed. this was trump on testing. >> anybody that wants a test can get a test. >> we took over an obsolete broken testing system. >> theres not a lot of issues with testing. >> we have done more testing than any other country combined. by doing all of t...

29th. went ahead and got tested and let the contact tracers know about their travel history and where they had just come from. what they are doing in san francisco county is they have a very robust testing system. and everyone who tests positive, they then send it to the university of california san francisco who then checks those positive tests to see what variant they are. in fact, take a listen to one of the doctors from ucsf about how quickly they moved on this. >> i heard about it actually ...

Cooled testing system. we can sample of wastewater from a building or several buildings every day. and if the wastewater is positive, we can issue targeted notifications for the people living and working in those buildings so we can most efficiently test people where there may be a possible infection. >> when it comes to the omicron variant specifically, theyre looking for whats known as an s-drop. that is something that is somewhat unique to the omicron variant. its not found in the delta varia...

0 the president was asked about this earlier this week and he said that had not been recommended to him. youre his chief medical adviser. do you think thats something the country should adopt? >> im not so sure we should say that should be a requirement. we have 60 million people in this country who are not vaccinated, who are eligible to be vaccinated. lets get them vaccinated, lets get the people who are vaccinated boosted, lets get the children vaccinated. thats where we want to go as opposed...