been exposed and not tested negative, please don t travel and expose other people. i ll get to viewer questions, we have some great ones. first viewer asks how are the kids handling omicron based on data from south africa and europe? will the kids who only received two doses have enough antibody response to protect them from severe disease? so we aren t sure exactly how children are responding to omicron from the south africa/uk data, we do know, however, for the 18th week in a row, we have seen over 100,000 pediatric cases of covid in the united states and that number is increasing. as cases spike, cases in children will spike. that s really troubling, as a mom of two little ones. our second viewer asks, is there any real current information on which booster is most effective? the pfizer and moderna boosters are the boosters you should be getting. if you got the johnson & johnson vaccine it s okay to mix and
covid, you definitely need to get tested. the cdc has changed their recommendation so that if you re vaccinated you can wait about three to five days to get tested if you are not experiencing symptoms. if you are unvaccinated, you should please do not go travel and potentially expose other people. i m going to get to our viewer questions. we have some great ones. our first viewer asks, how are the kids handling omicron based on data from south africa and europe? will the kids who have only received two doses have enough antibody response to protect them from severe disease? so we aren t sure exactly how children are responding to omicron from the south africa and uk data. we do know, however, that for the 18th week in a row we have seen over 100,000 pediatric cases of covid in the united states, and that number is increasing. as cases spike, cases in children will spike. that s really troubling. as a mom of two little ones.
pay for a test to come into the uk, you have to pay for a day two arrival test which can be taken at any point before the end of day two, you can take that when you land in the uk or arrive in the uk. and then you may have to do a further test if you are found positive on your day two test. at that particular test will be paid for, a pcr test will be paid for, a pcr test will be paid for by the government is the third test needed. in some cases, if you are not vaccinated you do have to take a day eight test and pay for that yourself. potentially you could be looking at three lost that meant lots of tests so it is understandable why it is so expensive. is understandable why it is so exoensive- is understandable why it is so expensive. thank you for that clear and expensive. thank you for that clear and practical clear and practical information, answering some of our viewer questions. many thanks. another country imposing travel restrictions is the united states. president biden has
viewer questions. manuel in dallas sent in this video. let s take a look. does the covid-19 virus have a state of evolution or a chief evo evolving. this is an interesting question, right? this idea that there is an optimal fitness to these viruses, and steven hogue was just talking about that to some extent. ultimately there seems to be this push and pull. it doesn t always happen but as it becomes more transmissible it also loses some of its punch and we get into this sort of steady state. in some ways that s kind of what happened with the flu. the descendants even of the 1918 flu still exist today, and we ve sort of accepted that steady state. that may happen with this as well. but is that the same as the virus basically weakening over time? yeah, i mean, it weakens in addition to the fact that we get more global immunity, hopefully through vaccines primarily, but you know, through infection acquired immunity as well, in combination that immunity and a weakened a more weak
anything about that? no, anderson, i did not. i had no knowledge of what his test positivity or negativity was at all. i just was not i was not in that loop at all. okay. let s get to some more viewer questions, dr. fauci. this is an interesting one from liam in south africa sent in this video. take a listen. as a proud south african i ve watched in recent days as the world has shut its doors to my country. south africa has undoubtedly been punished for its discovery of the omicron variants which raises an important question. why would countries report future variants if they are simply slapped with discriminatory travel bans? these travel bans have certainly set a treacherous precedent. do you is there any merit, do you think, dr. fauci, to liam s concerns here? you know, i think there is some merit to that. we felt, at least i felt, and i know several of the members of the team felt really badly about that because the south africans