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Immunity anyone thad with previous infection, we were a naive population. one of the reason we can see the cases go up right now with omicron is because we have eyes on the virus in a way we didn't back in march of 2020. we have surveillance because we now have testing infrastructure in place. we have rapid tests. yes, they should be free, and available to all. new york city is going to mail out, i think, about a million but we've got pcr tests. all of these are getting overwhelmed as happens in an outbreak but we have testing capacity that gives us a sense of what's going on. we have quality ...

Those case numbers rising very rapidly is not going to be followed by a sort of comparable increase in hospitalizations and deaths. i'm hoping that we finally break the link between infections and hospitalizations and deaths because we have so many people vaccinated. last point, i remain worried, a lot of americans are still not vaccinated, a lot of older, high risk people still not boosted. they remain at risk. that's the group to pay attention to and figure out how we help them get through this. >> john. >> dr. jha let me ask you a question here, i live in new york city and people are freaki...

Available testing for the entirety of this pandemic, and we still have not done it right. why? >> right. so i think for many reasons. we've had a chronically underfunded public health system that was one reason, and we treated testing especially rapid tests as sort of a medical tool when it's a public health tool. it doesn't need to go through the fda and bureaucracy of that sort of approval process. that's one reason. we also don't have a robust testing infrastructure. that speaks to how decentralized our health care system is. we still are behind almost two years out and we know that testing...

Televisit with a provider. this is going to apply to anyone over the age of 2. it's going to apply to you regardless of vaccination status or what country you are in or your country of origin. it applies to everyone. it may not sound like a major change, people have been getting tested routinely, but that one-day window is key for people to plan around, especially if you plan to go somewhere that doesn't have a testing infrastructure such as we have in the united states or perhaps an area where these tests can cost in some cases north of $100. something that travelers may also see if you're co...

Travel abroad, was they used to have about a 72-hour window. not only is that a tighter timeline, but we're also going to have to be careful about what tests we get. pcr tests are accepted and some rapid antigen tests and some at-home tests will be accepted, but you'll likely need to talk to a telehealth provider over audio or video call in order for that to be accepted, as well. so for folks who are planning to travel soon, not only will they immediate to schedule this into their travel plans, but they may need to look at their budgets. in some countries with different testing infrastructure,...