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Tests in, however data for the past 13 days, taking account of both pcr and lateral flow tests shows a significant fall in the number of new positive cases and to put some detail on that, on sunday, monday and tuesday of last week, 36,526 new positive cases were recorded through pcr and lateral flow tests, this week over sunday, monday and today, tuesday, 20,268 cases have been reported, so quite a significant drop and if we look atjust at pcr tests, although i would ask everybody to bear in mind the limitations now in doing so, we have seen cases fall from an average of almost 13,000 per day ...

For the first time. is this a potential game changer as officials are crafting their pandemic responses? >> we need a lot more early detection for early signals. and waste water helps us to do that. you actually get a signal four to six days before test positivity or cases begin to increase. that becomes even more important now when we're doing so many rapid at-home tests that are not being reflected in the official numbers. so i'm glad that the cdc is doing this. this will allow for more resources to be surged into areas. imagine if you find there's a part of the country that's having a sudde...

Less than 5% test positive rate. high transmission is 100 new cases per 100,000 people and 10% or greater test positivity. what's happening now in this discussion, john, while we have a highly transmissible variant like omicron, some experts are saying maybe we should rethink what low transmission means. former commissioner dr. scott gottlieb brought it up on face the nation yesterday. he said let's rethink this as we discuss lifting restrictions. have a listen. >> we may need to rethink that. we may need to decide once we get to 20 cases that may be the point where we start to withdraw these ...

Recommendations quite yet. the reason why most covid-19 policies are based on levels of community transmission of the coronavirus and right now nearly every single county in the u.s. is still experiencing high levels of transmission. you see on this map here only a handful, about four counties, have gotten transmission down to low levels, two in rural texas, one in nebraska and one in hawaii. so low transmission means there are fewer than ten new covid-19 cases per 100,000 people in a week and the test positivity rates in a community is less than 5%. whereas, high transmission means there are ...

Broad agreement that's the task at hand. >> let's get some insights and expertise from the executive vice chairman of emergency medicine at massachusetts general hospital in boston. grateful for your time. does the government need to change the standard, if you will, somehow redefine high transmission as the cdc or set some other standard that helps mayors and governors decide you need a mask, do you need a mandate? >> that's a great question and this is the time to start asking it. the first graph you showed was fantastic. as you said, most of the country is actually looking better than it di...