From January to May 2022, more than 350 million test kits were mailed to 70 million families. Congress has not allocated funds for stockpiling the test kits after September.
you can be actively ingettinged have covid and spread it other people but as long as you show proof of vaccination come right on in. that doesn t actually make sense. djokovic actually had covid the end of 2021. the majority of americans got their vaccine early 2021. his immunity is probably stronger than the majority of people who have already been vaccinated against covid and the fact that he is a 35-year-old healthy male having that covid infection has already just decreased his already nominal risk of covid just a little bit more. i mean, at this point, the cdc thankfully updated their recommendations, they are no longer going to delineate between vaccinated and unvaccinated. finally acknowledging natural immunity provides some protection. they are getting breakthrough infections. these vaccines and boosters do not have the ability to prevent infection and prevent transmission long-term. any protection they have only last as few weeks. will the cdc update their travel entry require
tale because we know that a person who is vaccinated the way the president is, doubly boosted the way the president is, and has the access as he has to paxlovid, we have every reason to believe that he will do fine. these breakthrough infections of fully vaxed and boosted people seem really common why is that? well, the vaccines do a really good job, lester, in preventing you from getting severe disease leading to hospitalizations. when you are vaccinated, and particularly if you re doubly boosted, the likelihood you will get into serious trouble is very, very low. dr. fauci, what is it looking like for the availability for an omicron-specific vaccine? the fda has made the decision they ll go with in the fall an authorization of a bivalent vaccine so you can get coverage from the original vaccine that we had, plus what is projected to be the most likely situation that we ll be facing in the fall.
what that means in practical terms is that if you were infected three, four months ago, you could get reinfected. we re seeing high levels of reinfection. people not up-to-date on their vaccines have a lot of breakthrough infections. but the gd news here, martha, is our tools and our vaccines, if you are you have to date, if you get an infection, if you get treatments, those continue to work really, really well. so this is an area of concern. but we know how to manage this. well dr. jah said mandates shoup left to local jurisdictions and states. the former head of the fda says monkeypox is close to becoming an endemic case in the united states. the u.s. centers for disease control expects those numbers to rise in the coming weeks due to
again. but just given the trajectory and given the very high number of cases that we re seeing, it s very unlikely because cases usually do mean we have cases and then hospitalizations are lagging indicators. given the trajectory, it s very likely that we will go back to a mask mandate. wow. just extraordinary. because so many of us feel like we ve passed the worst of it, which, to some extent we have. but interesting to note that we could be going back to some satisfy those restrictions. and the highly contagious ba.5, the offshoot of the omicron variant, is largely to blame. i just want to play some sound of what the white house covid-19 response coordinator said on sunday. as you heard from dr. fauci, it is the most immune evasive. if you were infected three, four months ago, you can get reinfected. we re seeing high levels of reinfection. we re seeing people who are not up to date on their vaccines, have a lot of breakthrough