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Kits to all-americans. here's jonathan reiner. listen. >> yes, that's exactly what you should do. mail these tests out to everyone. the trump administration missed an opportunity to mail masks to everyone. this administration should be mailing tests to everyone. this notion that people are going to submit their -- the receipts for their $24 test to their insurance company is fanciful. imagine what would happen to vaccinations if people had to pay for it up front and then bill their insurance companies. that wouldn't work. same thing is for testing. we need too get our act together. >> your tho...

The way we did the first two doses, that was because we in emergency. i've talked to a lot of scientists who indicate that actually we should spread out the second dose, and we've seen no guidance on that either. >> right. so no guidance on that either. definitely there is evidence that spacing out those primary doses does lead to a stronger and more prolonged immune response. obviously that's something we need to study more, but has to be revised in those guidelines and hasn't didn't one yet. i do think we have to be very careful in terms of updating, revising guidelines too often that may le...

Olds. so, i want to make sure that if there is a recommendation, it's based on really good data and i can recommend it for my patients and make a decision as to whether i think it's the right way to go. and it puts more pressure on the importance of vaccinating adults who are around children, encouraging them because that is the buffer that will protect them. it puts more pressure on getting testing into schools which has not moved forward in a very effective way at all. >> i want, dr. besser, this testing issue. i'm just reading here from joebiden.com back in 2020, when he was just a candidat...

Responsibility, individualistic perspective, and i think in terms of ending the pandemic, we need a collective response. what i would like for the cdc and white house to think about in terms of messaging is that we are all in the same boat, the idea of the pandemic of unvaccinated, we have seen that it is not just the pandemic of the unvaccinated, when hospitals are at capacity, both people with covid and noncovid problems are impacted and we have cases across the country. we need a reset in terms of thinking about perspective that messaging is coming from. >> dr. hotez, the announcement, one ...

Americans have one more step towards a better country. >> there will be health care debates, some democrats still want medicare for all. joe biden campaigned, you mentioned the primary, that was a testing issue early on, medicare for all or make obamacare better. this will continue. >> bernie sanders who is the senate budget committee chairman is trying to work health care pieces into this budget resolution that is mostly supposed to be about infrastructure. some human infrastructure as nancy pelosi calls it but he wants to push on prescription drug issues, talking about medicare expansion, th...