taking a lateral flow test? what s the best way for people to use them? i think there are two things. it s really important when the government makes this move to make it clear the test results have to be reported. this will be our only way of keeping track of this epidemic wave. i think the other key thing to get across and something i have said since i was first using lateral flow tests for student testing this time last year, is that the wonderful positive result of, you can be absently sure. negative result means you were not negative when you took the test. that does not mean to say you had to not have the beginnings of a covid infection. i would encourage people if they have symptoms to test regularly and if they are taking a test to do an activity, do the test immediately before the activity. a lateral flow test result can change within a matter of 12 24 hours. take it as close to the reason you are taking a test because they can
appropriate in terms of when we re going to pass through this omicron wave across the united states. now, this is a big country, this will affect different parts of the country at different points in time, but if the u.k. is any guide, london is already peaking. if south africa is any guide, this is about a two-month epidemic wave from start to finish. parts of the country that were affected earlier like new york are probably going to start to peak in the next two weeks, other parts in four weeks. i think certainly by the end of february, we will be through this if businesses need a guide as to when prevalence is going to start to decline. more or less providing a time frame of what we can expect in the coming months. but also before he said that, he said it was imperative that schools actually welcome students back in person. he thought perhaps that by starting with remote learning, that sends the message that they cannot control an outbreak, when we ve seen for the last several mon
to isolate for at least ten days. the whole goal of new york city school officials here is to try to limit the disruptions and we heard this morning from dr. godly, the former fda commissioner who is really urging schools to continue with in person learning as long as those right tools and those right steps are taken, godly offering insight on when we as a nation may finally turn a corner when it comes to this current variant outbreak. i think certainly the february time frame is appropriate in terms of when we re going to pass through this omicron wave across the quunite states. this is a big country. this will affect different parts of the country at different times. london is peaking. south africa is any guide, this is a two-month epidemic wave from start to finish. parts of the country that were affected earlier like new york will probably start to peak in the next two weeks and other parts within the next four weeks. certainly by the end of february, we ll be through this
has its own demographic considerations. a note of optimism and a note of caution. to that point hospitals, here in the united states remained straight from the last surge that was fueled by the delta variant. omicron is not rapidly spreading an nbc news analysis finds quote, hospitalizations are rising around the nation have risen 39% from november 1st. today our health care workers prepare for the, worst pfizer predicts some states seeing a surge now could fizzle out in a matter of weeks. the tri-state region is probably going to be coming out of this epidemic wave of omicron by mid january what other parts of the country will still be heating up. all right with us for more dr. aileen marty, she s a professor of investor in disease in the in miami a veteran of global medicine. and with the world health organization, doctor marty thank you for being with us. it s good to see. so we have dr. fauci talking about some positive things
states for that matter is when the infection level went down in the adult populations, it went down in children as well. but we ve also seen the opposite. we ve seen situations where children became sources of community spread. that s certainly what happened in michigan. the epidemic wave that we saw in the springtime in michigan was driven in part by the reopening of schools in michigan. so you do want to try to get vaccines into the setting, into children, but the best way to protect children is to get adults vaccinated. and that s what we have the opportunity to do right now. the vaccine in kids under the age of 12, so from 5 to 11, is really a different dose. it s a 10 microgram dose of the pfizer vaccine, the company i m on the board of which is developing that vaccine. the vaccine in people in adults and children 12 and above is a 30 microgram dose. so they ll put that 10 microgram dose through a different regulatory process. the agency generally views kids as 12 and above as lit