the vaccine, while it does not stop disease spread, it is actually quite good against severe disease. if you get it, take the vaccinet it basically protects you, to a very large extent, against going to the hospital, and dying, if you were to get sick. that is why i strongly recommend the vaccine, especially for vulnerable people. second, we have good treatments that have been coming on line. we have had monoclonalat antibodies for the better part of a year now, more than a year. likely saved donald trump s life when he got them in october of 2020. and we ve got these new pfizer pills. we have evidence there are some cheap drugs, just saw a fantastic study of a cheap drug that seems to be effective, if you get the disease. we have rapid tests. if you re going to go visit grandma, you are not sure if
if you re going to go visit grandma, you are not sure if grandma getting it is much worse than me or my kids getting it because older people have such a higher likelihood of bad outcomes from this disease, so i can just check myself, if i m positive, visit grandma later. these kinds of technologies help people manage the risk and reduce the fear. jesse: right. and in the long run what will happen sorry, go ahead. jesse: no, i was just going to say, you are loaded with pills, with vaccines, with all sorts of new developments, as you ve mentioned the therapeutics and the tests. isolate the elderly and the sick if you re worried about it, but the rest of the show can go on. yeah, and i think, obviously, isolation is a voluntary thing but if someone is older and higher risk, vaccine still protect them, but they made during times of peak transmission back off from sort of connecting with lots of people, but that is just
better time than now to produce these and getting these to be accessible to all americans in a readily available means so that people don t have to be making hard decisions, do i use test to go visit grandma or do i use the test to go to work? we need to understand that these tests are not medical devices. these are tests that allow us to gain and be empowered to know if we re infectious so we re protecting our peers an the people around us. and the more we could understand and have eyes on the virus, which is one of the tests offer, the better in terms of living successfully with this virus in the future. the fda recently cautioned that some brands, not all, but some brands of antigen and pcr tests may not be able to detect the omicron variant as successfully as the prior variants. why would that be and does that mean the actual tests need to be
that people who are vaccinated and boosted, although they can have very high viral loads in the beginning of their infection, if they actually do get contaminated and infected, the values, the ct values tend to shift very quickly, so that they are no longer contagious after a short period of time. so i think we have to take that into consideration when you determine how long somebody needs to be out. you can certainly test to determine whether somebody is safe to be out and about. but that person should be wearing a mask, if they re around others. and when we travel and we go visit grandma, please be sure that you have tested negative before you visit grandma, even if she is vaccinated and boosted, because remember, elderly individuals are at higher risk, even if they re vaccinated. and those same people can say, please, to their cities and local pharmacies, have those tests available and affordable. kelly, take us to london. i know the government there is really trying not to put th
protect people against the bad outcomes if you get infected. for instance, we have the vaccine. absolutely, great tool for protection if you get sick. n another one is the monoclonal antibodies. reduces risk of hospitalization and death. we have these lateral flow test kits that quickly tell you if you re positive before you go visit grandma. we have all these amazing tools to be able to reduce the risk from vulnerable people. there s a thousand fold difference. the elderly are a thousand times more likely to die if they get infected if they re not vaccinated versus young people. same time the mitigation strategies we ve been doing have caused enormous public health harm. countless people missed their cancer screening and women are showing up with stage four breast cancer today that should have been picked up last year because we stopped doing