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Taking a lateral flow test? what's the best way for people to use them? i think there are two things. it's really important when the government makes this move to make it clear the test results have to be reported. this will be our only way of keeping track of this epidemic wave. i think the other key thing to get across and something i have said since i was first using lateral flow tests for student testing this time last year, is that the wonderful positive result of, you can be absently sure. negative result means you were not negative when you took the test. that does not mean to say you h...

Appropriate in terms of when we're going to pass through this omicron wave across the united states. now, this is a big country, this will affect different parts of the country at different points in time, but if the u.k. is any guide, london is already peaking. if south africa is any guide, this is about a two-month epidemic wave from start to finish. parts of the country that were affected earlier like new york are probably going to start to peak in the next two weeks, other parts in four weeks. i think certainly by the end of february, we will be through this if businesses need a guide as t...

To isolate for at least ten days. the whole goal of new york city school officials here is to try to limit the disruptions and we heard this morning from dr. godly, the former fda commissioner who is really urging schools to continue with in person learning as long as those right tools and those right steps are taken, godly offering insight on when we as a nation may finally turn a corner when it comes to this current variant outbreak. >> i think certainly the february time frame is appropriate in terms of when we're going to pass through this omicron wave across the quunite states. this is a ...

Has its own demographic considerations. >> a note of optimism and a note of caution. to that point hospitals, here in the united states remained straight from the last surge that was fueled by the delta variant. omicron is not rapidly spreading an nbc news analysis finds quote, hospitalizations are rising around the nation have risen 39% from november 1st. today our health care workers prepare for the, worst pfizer -- predicts some states seeing a surge now could fizzle out in a matter of weeks. >> the tri-state region is probably going to be coming out of this epidemic wave of omicron by mid ...

States for that matter is when the infection level went down in the adult populations, it went down in children as well. but we've also seen the opposite. we've seen situations where children became sources of community spread. that's certainly what happened in michigan. the epidemic wave that we saw in the springtime in michigan was driven in part by the reopening of schools in michigan. so you do want to try to get vaccines into the setting, into children, but the best way to protect children is to get adults vaccinated. and that's what we have the opportunity to do right now. the vaccine in...