they catch it than somebody who is not vaccinated? it s a very good question. we know for other variants like delta and alpha or the original strain, that absolutely, if you were vaccinated, you re far less likely to transmit because you re much less contagious. i suspect what we re going to see with omicron is if you re boosted, you re going to be less likely to be contagious, less likely to be infected. we donts know for sure. we ll have to sort this out for omicron as we have every other variant. tell us how you live your life, the choices you choose to make. do you still go out in restaurants? do you go to a movie theater? do you have small gatherings with friends? you are someone that people look up to. he wants to avoid getting covid. what are some of the things that you do? sure. so i have gatherings with friends in our home. everybody who comes in is vaccinated and boosted. i don t worry so much about the little kids, if they re over 5, they re all vaccinated as well.
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under, i would say, serious consideration. what do you say to those who think it s taking too long for health experts to update their guidance and are forced to abide by old guidance that may not be as relevant especially with omicron? yeah, i totally agree with that, jake. i do think that it needs to be shoernted. i expect the cdc to come out, hopefully soon, with some new guidance on this. but that s what i m expecting at this moment because the evidence is pretty clear. you don t need to be isolated for ten days if you ve been infected, particularly if you ve been vaccinated and boosted. much shorter isolation is fine. you re not going to be contagious. there are ways of mitigating it, which is mask wearing or negative antigen test which is what i ve called for as a way to end an isolation earlier than ten days. testing continues to be a real challenge in this country. inexplicably given how much experts and people like you and me have been talking about the need to have testi
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we have seen a 50% increase in testing volumes. between those two. and we don t quite know if we re at peak yet with omicron. reporter: and jake, i also checked in with the florida hospital association. they say they re seeing hospitalizations relatively low increasing slowly, but they still have many beds to treat covid patients and non-covid patients in florida. are they worried at all about running out of tests? so i asked about supply, and they say at this point, while they don t know exactly when they will hit the peak for this omicron wave, the head of nomi health in florida says they are not concerned about supply when it comes to testing materials. they are working around the clock when it comes to their labs, but the supply is not a concern at this point. leyla santiago in miami,
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