Good morning. Welcome to Axios today. It's Tuesday, November 23rd. I'm Nile LaBoude. Here's

what we're watching today. Drone Powell is nominated for a second term leading the Fed.

Plus, some cities are giving universal basic mobility a try. But first, today's one big thing.

How COVID testing should factor into your Thanksgiving plans.

With Thanksgiving around the corner, COVID cases in the U.S. are rising in most states and across

the country as a whole by 20% actually over the past two weeks. Which has us asking what role

testing is going to play in keeping ourselves and our loved ones safe for the holidays.

Dr. Lena Wen is an emergency physician and former Baltimore Health Commissioner. She also teaches

health policy and management at George Washington University. Welcome, Dr. Wen.

Thank you so much. Glad to join you today. If you are double vaccinated or double vaccinated with

the booster, is testing still necessary? So much in this pandemic is going to have the following

answer, which is it depends. Let's assume that individuals are vaccinated and also have gotten

their booster. Whether they get testing on top of them depends on the setting that they're going in.

If you're a generally healthy person, you've gotten your vaccines, you're hanging out with

other generally healthy vaccinated people, you could probably forego testing. However,

if you're going to be seeing an immunocompromised family member or children who are too young to be

vaccinated, and especially if you're living in an area with high rates of community spread,

testing can be an additional level of protection that gives you peace of mind. And I would also say,

if you are able to get tested the day of, including with a rapid test, you do not need to mask

indoors. And that will also help a lot of families and friends get together for the holidays

and feel like it is pre-pandemic normal again. And so thinking about rapid tests as an option for

day of, are there at home rapid tests that you would feel comfortable with? Yes, I would feel

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