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Hospital. it is absolutely targeting those groups. i do think that there is a high risk that as a pandemic continues, all of us will end up being exposed to many of us will end up being infected. >> new questions when we are testing for omicron, what is the best test? everybody has been doing the nasal swabs. maybe on occasion you may get the deep swab, but now there is a move to, well, it infects mostly the throat. it would be better to do a throat swab or a saliva test. to your knowledge, what is the best way to test for omicron and what sort of test should people be looking for when they go...

Mentioned, cases are dropping and also americans are starting to get these free at-home rapid test kits from the federal government. they're just starting to arrive in the mail. >> gabe gutierrez, thank you so much. joining me is dr. wesley long, the medical director of diagnostic microbiology at houston methodist. your hospital has already identified several cases of this new stealth variant of omicron. what can you tell us about it? >> jose, i can tell you thus far we've only detected two cases ba.2, what we collison of omicron. the stealth name is -- all our pcr tests are able to detect ba....

This son of omicron? >> to the best of our knowledge, the antigen tests that are popular in the u.s. can detect the ba.2 as well. it's a way to make sure the tests approved in the u.s. can detect it. we can confidently say our pcr tests that we use here at houston methodist are able to dedeath ba.2 without any difficulty. >> what do we know about ba.2 versus omicron original? >> the ba.2 variant is closely related to the original omicron, and they both emerged around the same time and were first detected in the same parts of the world, in south africa, the first to report both of these variant...

Are not as sensitive or at least they miss some of the positive results in the first 36 hours. when a lot of these tests were first approved, they were approved under an authorization that required people to check three separate tests two to three days apart. that's a good practice to use again here. because folks need to know that some of these antigen tests miss those very earliest cases, but if you check twice, it's much more likely you'll pick yourself up if you're positive. >> dr. mario ramirez and heidi przybyla, thank you so much for being with me this morning. coming up, texas congress...