months before the delta variant entered the united states. how safe is that in these times with delta, dr. fauci? again, i think what we have to do, craig, is make sure that everything you talk about with delta is always a bit more risky than it is with the others, but there haven t been head to head comparisons. so i really can t give you a scientifically based answer based on a head to head comparison. i can only tell you that you ve always got to be more careful when you re dealing with transmissibility when you re dealing with delta because without a doubt, the one thing we do know is that delta is more transmissible. getting back to the original question you asked, that type of approach of daily testing has worked in other situations as opposed to when you get a child infected, you ve got to quarantine everyone who s come into contact with them. so that pilot study you mentioned i believe is an
citizens now who are our kids, who are all unvaccinated, all kids under 12 are unvaccinated. he would deny them the protection of ensuring that all the kids are masked while instead cloaking himself in the protection of daily testing. he said today that he is tested every single day, which makes no sense. until you realize that he also was treated with monoclonal antibodies although he states he has no symptoms. actually, the drug is not approved for people who are asymptomatic. so basically, what the governor was doing was testing himself every single day so that at the earliest sign that he could be infected he would avail himself of this $1,500 per dose drug. a strategy unavailable to the average american or the average texan.
exactly. we know he s in a wheelchair. but as you point out, at that event even if people were vaccinated i m not sure what the requirements were there, people can still shed virus. that s what dictated some of the recent changes from the cdc where they found that even full ly vaccinated people, far less likely to get sick, which is great, they may still carry enough virus in their nose and mouth to potentially shed it. i think one of the concerns here when you look at that whole scene and put it together is you have somebody who is railing against masks, preventing mask mandates while at the same time we learn now getting tested daily, cloaking himself in these daily tests and when he got a first test that came back positive went and got these monoclonal antibody. it s a glimpse of what s happening behind the scenes at the same time that people are saying don t bother wearing a mask, they themselves may have the safeguards of daily testing
most people, you know, aren t tested weekly or even monthly for that matter. this regeneron that he s taking, is that something most people would be treated with? well, where to begin here, anderson? first of all, i wish the governor does well as peter was saying. so you have a situation here where the governor is railing against masks but he himself we learned is not wearing a mask in that setting even though he should have been, is getting tested on a daily basis instead of wearing a mask, and then goes and gets regeneron while he s asymptomatic after having been vaccinated. it s really there s not a lot of logic here. instead of wearing a mask, daily testing, $1,500 worth of antibodies and still not wearing a mask after that. i m not quite sure what the message is here. what the cdc says, to your question specifically, is if you ve been vaccinated, you have
instead cloaking himself in the protection of daily testing. he said today that he is tested every single day, which makes no sense. until you realize that he also was treated with monoclonal antibody, though he says he no sym symptoms. the drug is not approved for those asymptomatic. he was testing himself every single day so that at the earliest sign he would be affected, he would available himself of this $1,500 per dose drug, a strategy unavailable to the average american or the average texas. what an elitist, hypocritical display by that governor. speaking of hypocritical, let me just disabuse some people of the notion that this event indoors, no masks, that it it