Health insurers must cover the cost of at home testing, so that if you're one of the hundred and 50 million americans with private health insurance, next month your plan will cover at home test. Making everyone file insurance reimbursements to get free tests does not sound like making this a lot easier or campelling for people to go due. This is not a plan that a lot of public health experts are really enthusiastic about, to be honest with you. And what these teams would be would basically be like teams of nurses and doctors and public health workers, epidemiologists, those kinds of folks who would be oncall and available to deploy to specific localities where there's an acute surge in
Thanks to South Africa, the world now has some data on omicron’s severity, transmissibility, and whether or not the vaccines will protect us from it.
Today’s show was produced by Miles Bryan with help from Hady Mawajdeh, edited by Matt Collette, engineered by Efim Shapiro, fact-checked by Laura Bullard and hosted by Sean Rameswaram.
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