each of these tests often costs $25 typically. and if you need to test multiple family members those costs add up. we need for testing to not only be accessible but ideally free of charge. dr. scott hadland, we appreciate you being with us this morning. thanks for having me. up next, alarming new numbers of migrants crossing the southern border. and will president biden s legislative wins fall short among members of his own party in the house? at if you could have the perspective to see more? at morgan stanley, a global collective of thought leaders offers investors a broader view. we see companies protecting the bottom line by putting people first. we see a bright future, still hungry for the ingenuity of those ready for the next challenge. today, we are translating decades of experience into strategies for the road ahead. we are morgan stanley.
d.c. where i live, testing is easy and quick for adults but when it comes to kids, it is more difficult if they re under 3 years. what is the need when you re up against a school year? well, that s really critical. we are a year and a half into this pandemic now. we know the basics. we know what works. we know that kids and people more generally need to be physically distanced from one another. we know that they should be wearing masks. but we have also known from the earliest days of this pandemic we need lots of testing and we need that testing to be accessible, ideally free of charge and we need for it to have rapid turn around so we can get results quickly. and now is no more important a time than ever. we re heading back into the school year. delta variant, infections are on the rise. kids are disproportionately infected by these infections. and so i m worried that we re not ready for what s to come. let me just state the obvious, too, we re talking about a population that is
not soon enough at least to make any kind of difference to this. so testing would be vital. what s standing in the way? well, i think there s a lot of different barriers here. as i experienced a number of testing centers really cut back on their hours. the testing center we went to by the way, i ll say the city of boston where we live has wonderful testing. we have some of the best healthcare in the world. and we were able to get good testing, but the hours that we could go were really quite limited. only three-hour windows you could go to our particular testing center. you know, they don t have testing hours everyday. sometime it s only every other day, often not on weekends and almost certainly not in the evenings or during times when parents can take their kids in. so i think just access is one huge issue. there s been a lot of developments, too, in home rapid ant general testing which is a fantastic option for many families, but unfortunately many aren t yet recommended for you
father of two. thanks for joining us. so dr. hadlin, you re a doctor in boston and you couldn t get your own daughter tested easily. what does that tell you? thanks so much for having me on this morning. yes, i was shocked to learn how difficult it was to get testing for us. my daughter got sent home from day care. she had a fever. and then we called our pediatrician. they had no appointments. we tried one testing center. wait for an hour in a parking lot. found another testing center on the other side of the town that had limited hours later on in the afternoon. got testing. fortunately she was covid negative, but all of this told me that testing is woefully inadequate right now. it shouldn t take me half of a day to find testing. when we don t have testing, kids are out of school and adults are out of work. that s going to come head on into the school year. i ve experienced something similarly just anecdotalty talking to people in washington,