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Properly. is our testing regimen ready for omicron in the united states? >> thanks for having me. a lot happened this past week and a lot to catch up on but one of the critical components in getting in front of outbreaks such as the sars-cov-2 is our testing capability. last year, it was dismal. i would give some kudos to the united states. we have, in the u.s., increased our testing surveillance from about 21% to less than 1% to 10%. however, it's not equally distributed across the country, not reaching all pockets of our country that we need to reach. there's still a lot of blind spots, stil...

It has to appear that they are decisive and timely and i have to tell you, one level of concern on that, why is it being put in place monday? if you decide you want to travel ban, you should do it now. why have some fights over the weekend? all it takes is just a couple of cases administers to spread. another point i want to make is what about central america? i checked and there's plenty of flight going from you hand is burnt to central america and we talked about the southern border so you've got to watch out for flights from south africa to other places and then on into the united states. t...

Out of class and back at home. what do you think of this as a pediatrician? do you think it's a smart strategy? do we have the testing capability? >> well, i think it's an extra layer of support. but it's a third-tier strategy. by that, i mean if we're serious about getting kids through in-person classes, we have to have everybody in the school vaccinated, everybody masked, and certainly for the middle schools and high schools that is possible, although we've got a lot of unfortunately elected leaders who are fighting back on that. hopefully later on in this month we'll get more information ab...

Investegate announcements from Promptlink Communications, Inc, Promptlink Expands CPE Atlas Testing Capability to Include Wi-Fi 6e and Multi-Gigabit Ethernet

Vaccine mandates or mask mandates for that matter. what can parents do to make sure their children are safe if their teachers and peers aren't vaccinated? >> we know how to get kids back into school safely full-time. it includes many of the things you mentioned, vaccinations for everybody. it means good ventilation. it means testing. we have lots of testing capability now. and it does include especially in high-transmission areas mask wearing. and what i would say to parents is first of all if you're in a high transmission area, certainly make sure your kids are masked up. but push for those p...