produced be clap along if you feel like a room without a roof because i m happy clap along if you feel if your happy. brian: that s fantastic. steve: that is good. brian: he was pushing for that a while ago. then the variant hit. then this happened. another variant out there. the cases are up. but testing haphazard across the country. down 60%. deaths under 500. so they are down precipitously. this variant is a subvariant of a variant. steve: subvariant of a variant. steve: quadrupled? ainsley: the restaurant workers in philadelphia are upset they are saying this mask mandate making everyone wear a mask indoors in philadelphia. we will have dr. oz to talk about that. we have some restaurant owners coming on. they are worried that it s going to hinder their their ability
this more quickly. and i wonder, by the time all these tests get out to people, and granted, it s a big effort, perhaps a billion tests being sent, will it be too late to have an effect on the omicron surge? yes. the short answer to that is yes. so first of all, there s no website up and running yet to order a test. this whole business of even paying for tests for people is so layered and cumbersome, having to get your insurance company to pay for it is unhelpful. this administration placed all of their eggs in vaccination, and the problem is that i don t think at the outset they understood how recalcitrant almost a quarter of the population of this country would be to getting vaccinated. and then when this surge hit, when the new variant hit, we desperately needed rapid tests. we just didn t have them. so, yeah, there will be more
Cambodia has removed a ban on travellers from 10 African countries after it was imposed nearly a week ago due to the Omicron variant of Covid-19, Health Minister Mam Bunheng said.