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It is regularly repetitive testing of people at risk for infection so we can identify the silent a symptomatic infected individual and pull them out of the transmission pool. we have not applied that effectively today. >> mike: dr. redfield, there is a great deal of emphasis on the surge in cases come of it is that an appropriate metric when some have two or three shots? should we be looking at some other metric like perhaps i see you fatalities? >> it's very important, there are two different issues. obviously one is, as an infectious disease physician, to try to control the pandemic and infe...

Out of the transmission pool. as we sit here today, we tonight have the number of tests that we need to have simple, reliable, weekly or twice a week testing to be able to understand how to pull yourself out of the transmission pool. i just got back from the uae. i was there eight days, decembered four times to make sure that i didn't have the virus and i was not entering in to the different environments that i went into. i think testing combined with vaccination and some smartness about mitigation steps. we have to go a -- we have to move on. we have to move on. >> martha: we're going to move...

So the other thing i would argue is to get more availability of testing to determine whether or not you're asymptomatically infected and pull yourself out of the transmission pool that is more important with omicron because more of us that get infected will have less symptoms. >> martha: i want to play this sound bite from dr. fauci where he opened the door to potentially more restrictions in the way we live our life. the nfl has just postponed three games. here's dr. fauci. >> if the counts keep going up and the test positivity keeps going up, we may need to be more restrictive. for right now...