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Just take a lot of precautions. i wear my n95 mask, i am washing my hands constantly and alcohol gel just trying to really make sure, cleaning every surface many, many times a day just trying to make sure we're taking every precaution that we can. for patients who are sick in my pharmacy we are trying to keep them outside, too. we deliver out to their vehicles and do testing in their cars. >> and then just a moment ago we heard from our sanjay gupta who explained the differences in covid tests because there remains a lot of confusion out there, the pcr or antigen test, et cetera. how much of y...

That is not explained and is most concerning. second, what they're saying is just not true. on one hand we're being told that the president and the country is precuring all these rapid tests that are going to help us, but on the other hand we're being told they're not going to. to fact is most of us believe if we're going to have to this five day you should have a rapid antigen that is a quality rapid antigen test, and i must highlight then. to then be able to show you're not shedding the virus. that's what those antigen tests do. they show when you're in that curve where if you walk out the d...

>> good afternoon this is president biden's last full day in delaware for the holiday week, tomorrow he returns to the white house and a host of challenges many of them are focused on testing coming off the holiday week couple of weeks of long lines americans waiting hours to get covid test. the administration is trying to buy 500 million of them to send out for free though it's unclear when adobe available doctor anthony fauci said the at-home antigen test are accurate especially more americans use them. >> the very good when they're given sequentially if you do them two or three times over a...

Others for five more days. here's the new part. they say if you want to, if you feel like it, if you can find one, go ahead and take an antigen test, also known as a rapid test, around day five. you don't have to. you can if you want to. if positive, you should isolate for the full 10 days rather than just the five days. now, let's talk a little bit about the science why they would let people out after five days, especially if they never take a test. this graph says it all. on the left-hand side, it shows the percent of people who are contagious when symptoms -- at symptom onset. when you star...

Vaccinated, that is the whole idea of herd immunity to protect those who need our help the most. >> so, sanjay, all this confusion or frustration, shortage of rapid at-home tests, week-long appointments for pcr tests, long lines when you show up and five days for results. i mean, lot of people are just fed up, at their wit's end. what do you say to americans? >> i -- i -- i can understand that. and -- and you know, i think that the -- the testing thing still sort of baffles me as to how -- i mean, i think this is the original sin. and -- and in in medicine, you have to really diagnose a proble...