get a rousing few boos when he walks on to the court here in melbourne. it is an honor to speak with you. long time fan. thank you for speaking to us this morning. thank you very much, guys. a blunt warning from the acting commissioner of the fda this morning, most people are going to get covid. dr. janet woodcook made the comet during a hearing yesterday why lawmakers were drill grilling top biden officials on the state of the pandemic amid the omicron surge. most people are going to get covid. all right. and what we need to do is make sure the hospitals can still function. omicron, with its extraordinary unprecedented degree of efficiency, of transmissibility, will ultimately find just about everybody. unfortunately, those who are still unvaccinated are going to get the brunt of the severe aspect of this.
and now again he s gotten himself into hot trouble. if you had covid, why would you do an interview and there are so many questions he has to answer over the next couple of days mr. or not he stays in the country or not. doing the interview after he tested positive, i m not sure that has the direct impact on whether or not australia lets him stay. it just means he was irresponsible. the false travel documents, whether or not it was his agent or whoever filled it in, that s, you know, that s a dishonest legal document there. yeah. and that s where i think over the last couple of days the australian government is trying to probe into those particular documents, just to see if there is any discrepancies in them and obviously filling out the wrong form and saying he didn t go to spain, for example, before he came to australia, that s a no-no. that is really an offense that can get you deported either way. so, again, he s filled out the incorrect form, he sort of lied about that he didn
yeah, you re in a sticky situation. if you have symptoms that can be covid, and the problem is they are pretty almost everything, you know, a fever, a sore throat, a cough, any of those things, at this point the disease is so prevalent, so many people have it, that i think the right assumption is that you have it until you can get tested. and once you make that assumption, what you should do is isolate yourself and stay home, don t come in contact with other people. and wait until you can get a test to confirm that. and so, you know, it is a tough situation, but i don t think there is any way to be sure whether you have covid if you have compatible symptoms and when it is as prevalent as it is. the best estimates here in san francisco, which is a highly vaccinated city, is right now about one in ten people walking around the street have it. and are test positivity rate for people that have symptoms is about 40%. there is a pretty good chance you have it if you have any compatible s
time to kick him out of the country, but as we said, this is in the hands of the government. nothing to do with the australian open. it has nothing to do with the victorian government. this is everything to do with the federal government now and the decision that they will make in the next 24 to 48 hours. i got to let you run. the wee hours of god knows what morning, i m not good with the time difference. do you believe novak djokovic? that s a tough question. look, it looks very suspicious, doesn t it, over the last 24 hours. it was very convenient for somebody who is not into vaccination to all of a sudden get covid positive at a very convenient time and then now the suspicion behind those documents and why would somebody who really does care about children and, you know, says he cares about people obviously, you know, put somebody in that kind of a situation of being covid positive and doing an interview. look, there is too many questions really for me and too much of an unknown
yeah, kaitlan, it is good. we need the tests. people are using the tests to try to figure out whether they re infected. to figure out when they can come out of isolation. but it is a little bit too late. i think the likeliest thing is that all of a sudden we re going to have a lot of tests around, about two, three, four weeks after we really needed them. we need them now. i found my son got covid about five days ago and i went around san francisco and tried to find a test, went to three pharmacies, couldn t find anything. tried to sign up for a pcr, five days away, not useful. we need it now. we will need it later too. so that s good. but they should have been working on this months ago. so what is your advice to people who are in that situation? because i heard the same thing, it is hard to get a rapid test, you can t find one, you try to schedule one, it is several days before you can get an appointment. what should people be doing if they re worried they are infected in that per