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Because i think it's legal and absolutely vital for the health of the country. >> dr. gounder, i want to talk about the cdc messaging issues and how much of this is on the cdc or how much of this is on the white house. look, we've seen just in the month of december, i want to put up here, on december 20th, we were told to stay home until after ten days have passed since your positive viral test. a week later people with covid-19 should isolate for five days, no mention of whether you should test negative before getting out of that. on tuesday, the best approach is to use an antigen test toward...

Experts say cloth masks provide very little protection against the omicron and delta variants >> those two variants are more transmissible, and that is why we're recommending that people wear a higher quality mask. >> reporter: meanwhile, insurance companies will now pay for everyone to receive eight at-home test kits per month. most experts say the antigen tests are very accurate though you could get a false negative in the first 48 hours of infection. >> if you have symptoms and you have a negative test in that first day or two, you could still have covid. so you should still isolate. you sh...

Four tests per household, is that going to make a difference? >> well, you're making a good point, jose. and i'll also point out, that even after you order those tests, it's probably going to be seven to ten days before those tests arrive. i think nobody knows exactly what's around the corner. it's likely there are some areas that will be past the peak of omicron and significantly improve by the time those tests become available. but in other parts of the country, there still may be a significant demand. if folks remember, tests were not in hot demand just a few weeks ago before omicron came o...

Therefore you can go out but you must wear a mask and the reason for wearing a mask is that it is possible that if you didn't wear a mask, you could transmit it. that's the reason for wearing a mask. >> i think it makes some people nervous to be around people who could be carriers, even in a mask especially given the chance -- transmissibility of omicron. many are depending on the antigen tests. you can get a lot of false positives or false negatives from those. what is your advice when it comes to testing? >> well, if you are exposed and feel that you really want to make sure that you are tes...

Listening because i think the antigen tests are giving people a false sense of security. you're saying the pcr test is the most impactful and effective and accurate, correct? >> it is correct, but there is a place, a good place, a reasonable place and appropriate place for the antigen testing and i just described what that was. >> right. okay. so i have a lot of people who in my life who have recently been infected who tested positive for covid-19. how do they know if they have the delta variant, the omicron because all they know they tested positive. they aren't hospitalized. they're quaranti...