some friends. that is a useful thing to answer. and it seems like if we were doing that at scale, we could stamp out a lot of outbreaks, certainly prevent superspreader events. that s exactly right. in fact, we published earlier in 2020, we started publishing papers that show exactly that. that if you can have enough people, finding out that they are infectious, and be able to self quarantine, it doesn t need to be near perfect, but just enough people, then you can actually sever transmission chances and stop outbreaks from growing. and not having to lock down schools, lockdown schools or businesses. we could have truly prevented the massive outbreaks that we saw this past fall and winter. and we could have prevented major lockdowns, and ideally save hundreds of thousands of lives, potentially. the netherlands is a place where they are making these fairly available. i have seen people taking
to go away. he thrives on chaos and division and, again, he holds superspreader events. he puts people at risk. i hope that the republican party comes to his senses its senses, to the extent that s possible and pushes him to the sidelines. but otherwise, no, we cannot begin to heal if we re still in the process of being actively traumatized. i think that s happening for all of the reasons i ve mentioned. what keeps you up at night. when you have concerns and you think about worst case scenarios, what keeps you up? i recently said to a friend of mine it s a terrible time to have empathy. what keeps me up is the fact
the last two weeks, look at that. up to 19%. so as school is coming on and these kids are going to have to get back in the classroom, what we see is their parents are taking these kids to, say, their local pharmacy to get vaccinated. and i am hopeful that that could help mitigate the spread so we don t have superspreader events in schools. so will getting it fda approved. okay. we just finished talking to the florida school-board official, right? instituted a mask mandate, despite what the governor doesn t want there. the idea of that being a muscular-political position. you are going to do this mask thing? you re going to force people? now, you re going to pay. how do people feel about that strong-arm tactic? one of the worst political things you will ever see. that s how they feel. look at this. even among republicans, do you report state laws where you withhold funds from school district with mask mandates? look at that. just 30% of republicans support that. just 22% of adults,
getting back to normal? what are the key factors that you are watching right now, doctor? so the key factor that i m looking at are hospitalizations. i m also looking at the actual positivity rate and the general infection rate and also what variants are the predominant strain because we do know that delta is a game changer, essentially given the high viral load and the increased transmissibility we are having more superspreader events. if we look at other countries like the uk, like india, like the netherlands, there were a lot of similarities. a lot of differences. a lot of similarities to help us understand when we will reach the peak as pertains to florida. what the other countries have shown is you reach the peak and then there s a quick drop-off, because, again, the virus spreads so fast if you are not immune it eventually runs out of hosts to infect. i m hoping that we reach that
president at the beginning of the pandemic led to hundreds of thousands of preventable deaths. the washington post writes during the pandemic, he held a number of superspreader events. he contacted as covid himself but he decided to take a joy ride in the presidential vehicle. nearly 900 of a secret service employees were infected with covid. so why then? after some 17 months should we expect him to all of a sudden care about the well-being of others, even his own base? trump has always been guided -less by ideology and more by sociopathy. he has never given a damn. so let s stop asking him to do the right thing. he never will. the rest of us, however, must. and we have to figure out ways to get as many people vaccinated as possible.