quantity at the time, but clearly a variant of concern, but once it came and if it did, and it has, widespread in the uk, they would be very little justification for keeping these tests and if you look at that as a previous statement, i think it is a good opportunity for previous departure tests to be scrapped. but previous departure tests to be scra ed. previous departure tests to be scraued. previous departure tests to be scra ed. ,, ., ., , ., scrapped. but if you get on a plane and are sitting scrapped. but if you get on a plane and are sitting there scrapped. but if you get on a plane and are sitting there with - scrapped. but if you get on a plane and are sitting there with hundreds of other people, it is a perfect petri dish, surely? tina of other people, it is a perfect petri dish, surely? two things, let s not forget petri dish, surely? two things, let s not forget there petri dish, surely? two things, let s not forget there are i petri dish, surely? two things,
i saw the story earlier this week about kids in new york city sitting on the 32-degree outside separated from the other classmates trying to have a meal. but having to also wear masks. what is going on with masks? what is the realityy dr. saphier? jason, i can tell you as we see omicron going around right now, it is extremely contagious highly transmissible. the single cloth mask that the children are wearing are likely going to be ineffective, not really doing anything. because as we see such a high transmission, it is likely a lot of these virus particles. and we know the single masks don t do much for that. many people are having mild systems or even asymptomatic, so it s not going to be those heavy respiratory droplets that are transmitting the virus as may be we saw more of an some the other variants. i put out a tweet earlier thisli
i saw the story earlier this week about kids in new york city sitting on the 32-degree outside separated from the other classmates trying to have a meal. but having to also wear masks. what is going on with masks? what is the reality, dr. saphier? jason, i can tell you as we see omicron going around right now, it is extremely contagious, highly transmissible. the single cloth mask that the children are wearing are likely going to be ineffective, not really doing anything. because as we see such a high transmission, it is likely a lot of these virus particles. and we know the single masks don t do much for that. many people are having mild systems or even asymptomatic, so it s not going to be those heavy respiratory droplets that are transmitting the virus as may be we saw more of an some the other variants. i put out a tweet earlier this week saying, at this point these masks on children are really for optics and it s time to remove these masks as they are not
making sure that the air is better and filtering out the virus particles. so those are the four things. and the fifth thing we re waiting on is, for the merck and pfizer drugs that really shorten the impact of getting an infection to be authorized by the fda. that should happen pretty soon. and then getting them out to people who are infected is going to be a very big and important task. should every american be provided with a rapid test? to be fair, what i m about to show you is two weeks old, and this is moving at a fast clip, but this is white house press secretary jen psaki two weeks ago on that issue. roll it. why not just make them free and give them out and have them available everywhere? should we just send one to every american? maybe. then what happens if every american has one test? how much does that cost and then what happens after that?
/PRNewswire/ Integral Molecular has developed the most extensive catalog of 68 variant SARS-CoV-2 Reporter Virus Particles (RVPs), now including Omicron,.