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We also need far better testing. the testing capacity has been ramped up recently. i fear that we are still missing a lot of cases. you can only be tested if you meet a specific case definition. you have to have active lesions. it would be great if we have a broader testing strategy and try to get our hands around monkeypox. >> dr. wen, thank you. up next for us congressman glenn thompson celebrates his gay son's wedding day three days after codifying same-sex marriage. ine. but then somomething amazing happened. hello? carvana worked with my shift manager and got everything sorted out so i ...

Streamlined reporting, delayed diagnosis and expanded testing. dr. scott gottlieb thinks the focus of who is getting tested is too narrow. >> i think the window for getting control of this and containing it probably has closed. if it hasn't closed, it is certainly starting to close. 11,000 cases across the world were probably detecting just a fraction of the actual cases because we had for a long time a narrow case definition on who got tested. and we're looking in the community of men who have sex with men and at std clinics. so we're looking and finding cases there. but it is a fact there is...

Just a fraction of the actual cases because we had for a long time a very narrow case definition on who got tested. >> joining us now the assistants professor in the section of infectious diseases and global health at the university of chicago and director of sti services at chicago center of hiv elimination. thank you for being with us. scott gottlieb says the window had closed or is about to close to contain monkeypox. what do you think of that assessment? >> i mean, i think the window is certainly closing currently. we have over 10,000 cases globally and have been really limited by stagnate...

Background: The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection and its treatment impact the child’s life as well as that of their caregivers. As therapeutic advances are made in the field, improved survival has shifted the focus from morbidity and mortality to quality of life. This study aims to compare the health-related quality of life (HRQoL) of children living with HIV in comparison with an HIV-negative control group and determine its relationship with socio-demographic, clinical, and nutritional variables. Method: This was a multi-center cross-sectional comparative study involving 274 pa...

This is still a black box. but it does seem omicron's symptoms are less severe, particularly when people get breakthrough cases because they have been vaccinated. what do we know about long covid with omicron in the context of people who have been vaccinated? are the impact reduced by getting vaccinations? >> well, almost by definition, we don't know a lot about long covid for omicron because it takes months to -- by the case definition, to know you have long covid. this has come up so quickly in southern africa and now here. we are not going to know this for a while. we have to be careful abo...