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testing positive, may be asymptomatic. what is being done now with testing and what do you think needs to change? you know, the problem is we are using the same testing paradigms that we did before vaccination after vaccination. what do i mean by that? if you are asymptomatic and you test for whatever reason, though right now that s not what cdc is recommending, you can have very little amount of virus in your nose and still be positive, and you will have to quarantine. so the problem with all of this is that if we test people and not somehow account for their level of infectiousness, you have proven someone is asymptomatic, not infectious, that s not a vaccine failure, that s vaccine success. turning to antigen testing rather than pcr, the value of the pcr would help us decide who
very small on those journeys tend to be very, very small indeed. i do want to go back, very small indeed. i do want to go back, though, to my central point, really. back, though, to my central point, really, which is if there is evidence really, which is if there is evidence that face coverings have an important evidence that face coverings have an important role to play in reducing transmission or, at simon says, reducing transmission or, at simon says, reducing hospitalisation, and i think reducing hospitalisation, and i think it reducing hospitalisation, and i think it is reducing hospitalisation, and i think it is probably important that the government could use to mandate the government could use to mandate the use the government could use to mandate the use lrut the government could use to mandate the use but what is important is that they the use but what is important is that they use is mandated in all spaces that they use is mandated in all spaces where p