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Who had covid-19. the cdc didn't add that criteria, and i think, frankly, they didn't add that criteria because there simply weren't enough tests to allow people to do that. hopefully that's starting to change. we need to use the tests in the proper way. >> do you think that we're relying too much on the pcr tests and we should focus more on the rapid at-home antigen tests? >> they each have their use. the antigen tests are great to tell you when you're sort of done, when you can leave isolation. that's identity deal use for them. the pcr tests are great to detect early, before the antigen tes...

Level of infection. what this testing facility is doing is nothing short of remarkable, 40 to 50,000 pcr tests in this country. the demand has skyrocketed. they're telling me the positivity right now is 30 to 35%. at the beginning of december it was 2 or 3%. there is also conversations going on right now about the latest guidance from the dissatisfaction when it comes to quarantining and then advising but not requiring a negative test to return to work after five days. the american medical association right now with some harsh words for the cdc, saying that it is both confounding and counterpr...

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Jacob ward, but there is only so much that can be done at this point? >> well, that is a big part of it. actually, what the white house has been saying about that is that earlier on, they could have invoked the defense production act. it's really only in this last year and more recently than that that we've had these tests. the dpa is effective when they need to force companies to do something they wouldn't otherwise do. but the white house sees this as a demand issue, that until recently there wasn't the demand of companies to want to ramp up production, and now there clearly is so they're ho...

And there are more questions than there are answers about this testing strategy. >> who's making the 500 million tests? they don't have contracts yet, but jen psaki said a few minutes ago they're not worried about that. they think they can get those tests. who is building this website where we're all going to go and order these tests? we recall what happened with the obamacare rollout the obama administration. that's not an easy thing to build. what happens after you get a test? 300 million americans. is that amount of tests enough? they're trying to answer those questions even as americans ne...