Phase one is very early and testing out dosing. first of all, why is, why would that be the case and should we start treating this as the flu both of them citing the same evidence that they've been seeing scientific is that this booster wanes quickly after about the third month. > the issue of a fourth booster shot, brought it up on this show yesterday, the israelis have rolled out a fourth booster. if it gets through us pretty quickly, yeah, it will cause a lot of disruption but then the spike will be over and we'll be able to kind of recoup from that and much, much better than an ongoing sustained high level of infection. they are in a different season and different population immunity profile and i wouldn't bet on it but i'm hoping it is.
look, the dynamics of the virus are going to be different in south africa than the u.s. i'm hoping that we will not see a big spike up and then a high plateau but instead a climb down pretty quickly.
> yeah, so, first of all, we don't know if it will play out the same way, obviously. every time the white house takes drastic additional measures and new restrictions and new steps they get criticism even from the right and even from some on the now, the white house would say that they can't exactly predict what we're going to need because this has been quite an evolving situation, but i also think kind of a goldilocks element to this, as well, chuck. everybody having one test is not going to be functional when we are basically being encouraged to test as regularly as possible. after this initial $500 million that they're going to provide, is that it or is this going to become a recurring thing until the pandemic ends? > that's the big question. > josh, it did seem like six months ago they believed vaccines were the best tool not testing and now they seem to at least admit they needed more testing. > keep in mind more than half a dozen cities and states haveĬhuck, of how the white house is struggling with their own issues with trying to stay safe from covid within their own ranks, even as they're trying to scramble to find new ways to protect americans around the country.
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and that day there was a lot of good questioning on testing and during that briefing, i conveyed a lot of information about our expansion of testing about the 50 million tests that we were making available, about the 20,000 free testing sites and should i have included that additional context again in that answer? yes, going back i wish i would have done that. > then what happens if every american has one test? how much does that cost and what happens after that? i would say there's not a day that goes by that i don't leave this podium and wish i would have said something with greater context or more precision or additional information. > why not make them free and have them available everywhere? > should we send one to every american? > maybe. here was press secretary jen psaki less than two weeks ago and then yesterday. After holiday travel and after the worst of this current surge and comes a couple weeks after the white house downplayed the need for at-home testing.