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Individuals because you want to provide those individuals with early treatment. however, i and probably most other public health experts do not think that is a sound approach, especially when so many of our hospitals are getting overwhelmed at this point. remember, at the beginning of the pandemic we talked about flattening the curve, the entire idea was that even if a lot of people are going to get infected anyway, let's try to spread out the infections over time, so that we're not straining very limited healthcare resources. well, we're at that point now, we may all get omicron, but the late...

This is spreading a lot faster. there's a concern there. >> good and well to get boosters to children who are double vaccinated. the take up rate for kids we know is low. i guess from your perspective why is this. how does the government the medical community combat this. >> it's tough i think we're all exhibiting a little bit of pandemic fatigue. the virus isn't tired of us. that's what we have to remember. everybody individual action is what goes into when you are considering a pandemic. it's the collective of the country of our globe is getting our as many people doing right thing as possib...

Window when you might not have symptoms but you might be positive. whoever you are though, try to quarantine, wear a mask around others until you can get that test. >> if you just had covid over the holidays, when should you get your booster, or should you wait? >> you don't need to wait. we want -- we recommend doing your booster as soon as you finish isolation so it's not like with the first shots. you don't need to wait. get that booster. it can be very important. infection alone will likely not be protective enough. we're already seeing cases of reinfection. >> is super protection -- by th...

Still infected. and what we're seeing with omicron, it's just such a different time period from when you get infected to turning positive and the properties of the virus are just very different that it doesn't get picked up as well by the rapid test. so, what do we default to? the pcr. and as you point out, it's really hard to get one and the turn around time isn't useful. in the real world with my own patients, i'm telling them f you're sick, stay home. let's assume, until we can get you tested, let's assume you have covid because there's so much of it in our community, and then we do want to...

Longer than the first two vaccines where we knew we needed boosters five to six months later. but there are some preprint studies that show that immunity from a booster might decrease after about ten weeks, which is why you're seeing countries like israel going to a fourth shot but i will tell you, none of these studies can pick up on memory cells, which are great and have really kicked in to help protect us against infections so i think more data will come forward to show boosters last a lot longer than we think. >> this is a good one. if you were in close contact with a friend for more than ...