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After testing positive for covid-19. there are still 31% of people, roughly, that are still contagious on day five. it goes down to 5% by day ten. point is that this is confusing. um, that is there s quite possibly going to be a lot of people up to a third of people who are still contagious, and many of them may not test. and to give you a little bit of context, in the uk, for example, they looked at the same data and said people should isolate for at least seven days and have two negative antigen tests before they come out of isolation. we re we re far more liberal than that here. admiral, do you think i mean, is omicron you know, obviously, it s it s very easily transmissible. if it s somewhat weaker than than delta, which, you know, i guess it doesn t get into the lungs in in adults in that way. i mean, do you see any signs of the virus, overall, is getting is is getting weaker? well, first of all, um, i don t want anyone to have a date with omicron. get your ....
And the government can do this. and remember, all those 500,000 they are known who they are at the state level. the state could literally ship them one of those 500 million new home tests when they test positive so that they can test themselves out of isolation. so, you know, i think you can improve on that and i hope they modify that. yes, take a test to get out of isolation if you are at any risk of other people and have the government send you those tests right to your home. yeah. i mean, sanjay, it seems like i mean, if i had it and i was isolated for five days, i would want to test just so that i know that i am not going to go out and infect somebody else if, after five days, i m okay. do you think, sanjay, this decision was made because it s impossible for or really difficult to get a test? i have gone to cvs i don t know how many cvss i have gone looking for them. yeah sadly and the admiral and i have talked about this issue of testing. we re still not testing enough. ....
Numbers of cases so i do believe it s the beginning of that endemic phase where it becomes something we have to deal with, not shut down our schools, not shut down our societies, but keep the hospitalizations very low using all our tools, including oral therapies and testing. sandra: we ll have you back soon, admiral brett giroir, appreciate your time. it s a tough pill to swallow but he s given such good guidance throughout, it s hard to believe, we are at the point we have to accept living with this virus in some manner, perhaps for quite some time. and made a great point when he said look, the rapid tests are not being reported. they say there is a million cases of coronavirus a couple days ago, yesterday, it really is a lot of, doctors have said, could be 3 million, could be 4 million, because the rapid tests are not being turned in. great stuff. meantime, possible new fallout for manhattan so-called soft on crime district attorney. ....
Czar admiral giroir is our guest later this hour. sandra: president biden and vice president harris visiting atlanta to push voting rights legislation to overhaul the election. it s an issue democrats feel is critical to their chances in the fall midterm elections and beyond. i m sandra smith in new york. trace, welcome. great to see you. i m in for john roberts. the president will endorse changes for a key senate rule to pass the bill but the republicans say it s nothing more than a power grab and a way to nationalize elections and a system to help democrats. sandra: steve is in atlanta with the latest. so, this trip seems to be under attack before it has even happened. that s right, sandra, under attack and from the left as well. mainly democrats right now who are doing the criticism. ....
And i might even add, john, just for the sake of thinking about it, what if they had ordered sufficient tests and what if people by the millions and millions were out there being tested. could we trust the biden administration to put in place a set of protocols on the results of those tests, whether positive or negative that we could live with? i suspect the protocols would be much more severe and end results would be many, many more millions of people forced to stay home from their jobs with or without symptoms. sandra: ok, if that were not all enough to keep us all confused, about what is working and what is not, let s add to the equation that now it is believed and a new study out to show that cloth masks are not effective in combatting the omicron variant. admiral giroir was on earlier. ....