Why Covid-19 tests aren’t going away
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🗓️ 5 April 2021
⏱️ 6 minutes
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| 0:36.3 | America has been struggling since the very beginning of this pandemic when it comes to testing |
| 0:41.4 | for COVID. And now that the vaccine is here, you may think that's all in the past that we no longer |
| 0:48.3 | need to test for COVID at all, but you would be wrong. COVID tests might actually be now more |
| 0:55.0 | important than ever. And we could Sarah Morrison's here to explain. Hey Sarah. Hey Teddy. So explain |
| 1:00.9 | to me why we need COVID tests. If people are getting vaccinated, isn't this done? Well, no, |
| 1:08.6 | vaccines don't mean that all this goes away as much as I'm sure we like millions of Americans |
| 1:14.3 | and the rest of the world hasn't been vaccinated yet. Children can't be vaccinated yet. We're |
| 1:19.4 | seeing cases go up. Basically, people are still going to get COVID, so we're still going to need |
| 1:23.8 | tests. But we also made a lot of progress in the kinds of tests that we have available and |
| 1:29.7 | different use cases for them. So there's been a lot of progress on that level too, which, you know, |
| 1:34.0 | is good news. Okay, but for folks who have been vaccinated, will they ever need to get tested again? |
| 1:39.7 | First of all, we don't know how long the immunity that those vaccines provide last. |
| 1:44.6 | Okay. There's still some questions over how effective they are against the emerging variants. |
| 1:50.7 | So if you have symptoms, even if you've been vaccinated, you should get tested. So there's going |
| 1:55.2 | to be more testing. Tell me about that. Here's like a quick overview of tests. The test that |
| 2:02.4 | most people are most familiar with because it's the only one we had in the beginning was the PCR |
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