a big wave of infection. people who believe that the surge of delta that you saw in the summer really was the surge that you re going to see in the northeast. i am a little bit more skeptical. i think that you are still going to see a wave of infection sweep across the northeast as kids go back to school and they become sources of community spread and people return to work, the weather gets cold, and people move indoors but i think by thanksgiving, you will have seen this move its way through the country. dr. gottlieb also suggested that the u.s. could have a level of covid immunity at around 80% through a combination of vaccination and infection. and earlier, i spoke to dr. scott miscovich, a national consultant for covid testing and asked him if he agreed with the former-fda commissioner s analysis. i agree with him on all those points because, you know, we have zero-prevalence data across the united states. and what that means is people go in for a routine blood draw for, like,
strides. for now, it seems to be a shot in the arm, particularly to reverse some of the rollbacks that at the trump administration made in regards to its concessions to the industry. that, we need to look at as a step in the right direction rather than an endpoint. thank you for your insights, swetha ramachandran, have a great weekend. let s turn to the travel industry now, because as you ve been hearing, european countries are beginning to demand proof of covid immunity for access to a wide range of venues and services. as of monday, in france to visit a cafe or board a train you ll need to show a health pass proving two vaccine doses or recent negative covid test. it s part of an eu wide scheme, but what about tourists from outside the bloc? could it deal another huge blow to the tourism business, just when travel restrictions are beginning to lift?
let s turn to the travel industry now, because as you ve been hearing, european countries are beginning to demand proof of covid immunity for access to a wide range of venues and services. as of monday, in france, to visit a cafe or board a train you ll need to show a health pass, proving two vaccine doses or recent negative covid test. it s part of an eu wide scheme. but what about tourists from outside the bloc? could it deal another huge blow to the tourism business, just when travel restrictions are beginning to lift? elodie bertah is a paris tour guide. i asked her what the impact on paris would be. u nfortu nately, unfortunately, i think it will be limited because already we have very few tourists from outside the eu. so it will not be as devastating as you expected be, sadly. ii
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