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i d like for the the five days to at least be amended with, and after the fifth day, thou shalt take a test and show a negative test or two before being released. so, as long as you say, look, if you have no symptoms and you test negative, then five days according to most people i talk to feels like it s going to be sufficient. there are people that are infectious after the seventh or eighth or ninth day. but generally speaking, they are going to test positive in an antigen test, and/or they are going to be feeling symptoms. so i think i wouldn t just take five days in a vacuum. but five days. there are a lot of people who, after five days, the vast majority of whom are no longer infectious. and so if you can get a confirming test, i think then you are probably okay. and the president said today that he will make a decision on domestic travel vaccine requirements when he gets a recommendation from his medical team. you know, you were once an
others for five more days. here s the new part. they say if you want to, if you feel like it, if you can find one, go ahead and take an antigen test, also known as a rapid test, around day five. you don t have to. you can if you want to. if positive, you should isolate for the full 10 days rather than just the five days. now, let s talk a little bit about the science why they would let people out after five days, especially if they never take a test. this graph says it all. on the left-hand side, it shows the percent of people who are contagious when symptoms at symptom onset. when you start feeling symptoms, you are super contagious. that he wants the high bar there. as the days go by, you are less and less contagious. you see, after day five, the chances you re going to get someone else sick are really quite small. is it possible? yes. but it s quite small. so there are many voices saying since that chance is so small let s just, you know, why are we
eighth or ninth day. but generally speaking, they are going to test positive in an antigen test, and/or they are going to be feeling symptoms. so, um, i think i wouldn t just take five days in a vacuum. but five days. there are a lot of people who, after five days, the vast majority of whom are no longer infectious. and so, if you can get a confirming test, i think then you are probably okay. and the president said today that he will make a decision on domestic travel vaccine requirements when he gets a recommendation from his medical team. um, you you know, you were once an adviser in that regard. do you think it is time to think about vaccine mandates to fly domestically? we heard dr. anthony fauci hinting at that would be something he would support, and then he sort of walked that back. where are you on this? well, look, i think it should be on the table. and i think that the definition of vaccination now really needs to be a third dose. um, because if we are talking about i
green lit it. the vote was very, very close. but to have both of these pills available could really make a difference in the treatment of covid-19. the safety concerns weren t so much immediate safety concerns, they were more in some ways theoretical concerns, if you will. now, availability is really going to be the question here. how quickly can the government get this out on the market? also these pills need to be taken just within days of feeling symptoms of covid-19 and getting tested and knowing that you have covid, that s going to be tough given the current testing situation. jim. yeah, let s hope more options means easier availability. elizabeth cohen, thanks so much. so just a month before the winter olympics in beijing, officials in one city in central china, a big one, have instituted strict lockdown measures on all of its estimated 13 million residents. it comes after detecting 63 new covid cases there. from asia to south america to