The food and drug administration has granted emergency use authorizations to more manufactures. But for the most part, t s hasn't really invested in testing as part of its coven 19 strategy. And so without all those other things in place, even having these rapid tests out there, many of them are either going to be too costly or not going to be deployed in the right fashion.
The omicron variant is very transmissible, but it might make Covid-19 less miserable.
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