ailments. they don t have access to at home testing, only to find out that not only do they have this other problem like you just mentioned, maybe a heart issue, but they are also testing positive and now you have to treat them for multiple issues? absolutely. so that is the case and the big kind of grand scheme of things it doesn t change anything for us because we still have a lack of beds and a lack of staff and whether you have covid or don t have covid we still have to take care of you. it makes things for difficult. if you came in for a stroke and my husband doesn t happen to have a neurologist i have to transfer you. finding a bed is hard enough. now when i get on a transfer line telling them this patient is covid positive they have to find a neurologist and isolation bed that s available. that means caring for non-covid issues even if if you are asymptomatically covid positive that much more difficult. doctor, how do you see our way out of this, or are you
on the omicron variant from live virus including from the first u.s. omicron case and binaxnow detected the virus in all tests that we we are formed at equivalent sensitivity as other variants. what does that mean? how well does this test work in any of these variants? so we went to the cdc website this is what the cdc has to say. again, remember, if this test says you re positive, there is an excellent chance that it is right. positive tests are usually right. but, if you have covid-19, and you have symptoms, the test will be wrong 36% of the time. in other words, 36% of the time it will give you a false negative it will tell you negative even though you re positive. if you have covid-19 and you re asymptomatic, that test will be wrong 64% of the time. 64% of the time it is going to tell you don t have covid, when you really do have covid. and that s why dr. rochelle
know how many years i ve been doing this. this is the warmest it has ever been. it feels great. and katy perry, regina king, william shatner. so many more surprises. now i had thought the roaring 20s would have started by now. the roaring 20s? yeah. we re in the 20s. so where that s not going to happen. you have to reset. but we made it we keep resetting. we made it through another year and we ll see what the next year brings. it s a greatly reduced crowd here in times square. i mean, it was reduced last year. i feel maybe it s even more reduced. there was no one here last year. really? i have no memory of it whatsoever. there s a hodgepodge of people here. a happy hodgepodge. a happy hodgepodge. i think the cdc just spins a wheel at this point and wherever it lands you had you i did have covid. i just got over it.
we are waiting to hear the view of the supreme court on the issue, lawsuit of people are interested in it and will be impacted by it, we will be watching, carrie severino appreciate your time. griff: this as the data set for the state of the union and a disappointing december job s report is released lucas tomlinson is live from the north lawn, hi, lucas. lucas: the president in las vegas attending harry reid s funeral and things will get better despite record setting in the nation nearly two years into the pandemic. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay but covid as we are dealing with now is not here to stay, the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many more tools that we are
more normal accommodation in living with this virus? well, when we talk about where we have failed as a country and the cdc and our national policy, i mean if you look across to europe, they re mailing rapid antigen tests and have been for six, seven, eight months to everyone in the united kingdom so that they could be testing at home to try to make some intelligent decisions. we re now talking about we might start getting a billion tests available which would last us a couple of weeks in our country. in a perfect world every american would have a quality antigen test probably is a buck or $1.50 each and test monday, wednesday and friday. and everyone would know when you do that serial testing whether you or your kids going to school or going to see your graup have