FORECAST’RE WATCHING THE MORNING SH >> WE’RE TALKING HEALTH WITH
DOCTOR SCOTT ACKERMAN EXPERTS
SAY THE ROAD TO NORMALIZATION
WILL BE AN INCREASE
IN TESTING. JUST YESTERDAY, THE
WHITE HOUSE UNVEILED A
BLUEPRINT FOR STATES TO SCALE
THE ARE TESTING UP IN THE
COMING WEEKS THAT TESTING
TARGETS WOULD ENSURE STATES HAD
ENOUGH COVID-19 TESTS AVAILABLE
TO SAMPLE AT LEAST
2.6% OF THE RELATIVE
POPULATIONS
EACH MONTH. AREAS THAT HAVE
BEEN HARDER HIT BY THE VIRUS
WOULD BE ABLE TO TEST AT DOUBLE
THAT RATE OR HIGHER BUT SOME
OBSTACLES TO NORMALIZATION DO
REMAIN. JOINING US NOW TO
EXPLAIN LOCAL ONCOLOGIST DOCTOR
SCOT ACKERMAN
DOC, YOU KNOW THE REALITY IS
THAT WE’VE GOT TO CO EXIST
WITH THIS VIRUS BECAUSE FRANKLY
THERE IS NO EASY ANSWER RIGHT
NOW THERE’S NO VACCINE, THERE’S
NO CURE.
>> THAT’S CORRECT. YOU KNOW AS
WE AS THINGS START TO OPEN.
WE HAVE TO KIND OF SLOWLY INTO
THINGS WE CAN’T REALLY JUST
FLIP THE SWITCH AND AND GO BACK
TO
NORMAL BECAUSE THAT COULD BE A
REBOUND FROM THAT IF YOU FLIP
THE SWITCH ELECTION THAT
OR MORE. AND YOU COULD SEE A
SPIKE UP OF THE INCIDENTS ENDED
DEATH RATES FROM THE CURRENT
FIRES.
>>BRUCE HAMILTON: THEY’VE BEEN
TALKING ABOUT THE POSSIBILITY
OF THESE
ANTIBODY TESTS AND THE REALITY
IS SOME SAY THAT THE ANTIBODIES
TESTS ARE NOT NECESSARILY
RELIABLE. WHAT’S YOUR TAKE.
>> WELL THE WANTED TO FAST
TRACK. THESE ANTIBODY TEST AS
YOU REMEMBER THE TEST THE FDA
APPROVED INITIALLY FOR TESTING
FOR THE CORONAVIRUS IT IS TO
JUST TESTING THE GROUP MYERS
AND THEN AND IT MIGHT JUST THE
TENNESSEE THE CORONAVIRUS THAT
DIDN’T PLAY OUT SO WELL AND
THOSE TESTS WERE FLAWED AND
SERVE THE FDA WANT TO KIND OF
FAST TRACK THINGS FOR THE
ANTIBODY TESTS AS ANTI BY TEST
SO TELL US IF YOU HAD
CORONAVIRUS IN
THE PAST AND SO THE FDA IN AN
EFFORT TO TRY TO GET THESE
TESTS EVER QUICKLY ALLOWED
TESTING COMPANIES TO VALIDATE
THE TEST THEMSELVES AND THEN
ROLL THEM OUT, BUT THE
PROBLEM IS A LOT OF THESE JUST
IN THE ROLLED OUT, DO HAVE A
FALSE
POSITIVE RATE MEANING THAT THEY
MAY SHOW THAT YOU’VE BEEN
EXPOSED BEFORE, BUT ACTUALLY
YOU HAVEN’T AND SO IT COULD
GIVE PEOPLE A FALSE AND
SECURITY THAT THEY COULD BE
IMMUNE FROM DEVELOPING A
CORONAVIRUS AND I KNOW WHEN
THIS INITIALLY FLARED THERE HAD
BEEN SOME HOPE THAT
HOT WEATHER.
>>BRUCE HAMILTON: WHAT WOULD
BASICALLY KILL THE VIRUS, BUT
IT HAS BEEN VERY
VERY LIGHT AND SOME VERY WARM
CLIMATE. SO YOU KNOW THAT
BASICALLY PROVED TO BE FALSE.
>> THAT’S TRUE. SO A LOT OF
VIRUSES. THE INFLUENZA VIRUS.
WE KNOW KIND OF FADES OUT IN
THE IN THE SPRING AND SUMMER IS
WHEN IT GETS WARM. SO THE
ASSUMPTION WAS THAT SINCE THE
CORONAVIRUS WAS SIMILAR THAT
THE LIBYAN MEMBRANE OF THE
OUTSIDE WOULD WE’RE NOT
PROTECTED IN THE XI BUT THE
TRUTH IS THAT ACTUALLY HAS BEEN
BORNE OUT AND WE HAD HOPED
TO SEE SOME GUY OFF THE
CORONAVIRUS IN THE WARM
WEATHER. BUT WE CAN REALLY HANG
OUR HAT ON THAT AND THAT’S
REALLY NOT PLAYING OUT AS WE
THOUGHT IT MIGHT BE.
>> AND THAT SAID AS
WE REOPEN WE’RE NOT RETURNING
TO NORMAL WE’RE RETURNING TO A
NEW NORMAL THAT INCLUDES YOU
KNOW SOCIAL DISTANCING. AND
YOU KNOW PROBABLY WHEN WE’RE IN
CERTAIN CONFINES WEARING MASKS.
>> ABSOLUTELY I THINK WE’RE
GOING TO SEE IS IT. RESEARCHERS
ARE GOING TO START TO LOOSEN UP
WE’LL KIND OF EASE INTO A
NEW NORMALCY AS WE DO WE MAY
KNOW THAT YOU’VE ASKED IT
WILL SEE A SPIKE UP AGAIN OF
INCENTIVE DEATH RATE FROM
CORONAVIRUS WHEN THAT HAPPENS
WE’RE GOING TO ATTRACT AND I
WOULD
FOR C THIS EXPANSION AND
CONTRACTION MOVING FORWARD AND
MOVING AND
MOVING BACK GOING ON AND ON ARE
OVER AND OVER REPEATING ITSELF
A NUMBER OF TIMES BEFORE WE GET
TO A NEW NORMALCY AND THIS
COULD TAKE QUITE SOME TIME.
IT IS THE ONLY WAY THAT WE
CAN BE COMPLETELY BACK TO
NORMAL SOON REQUIRE BUYERS IS
IF IT COMPLETED EYES OUT.
IF WE DEVELOP AND THE FROM
UNITY IS A VACCINE THAT COMES
OUT OR THERE’S A TREATMENT FOR
AND NONE OF THAT’S HAPPENING
TOO QUICKLY
RIGHT NOW.
>>BRUCE HAMILTON: AND THE
REALITY IS WE MAY NOT HAVE A
VACCINE FOR UP TO 18 MONTHS I
THINK THE OTHER
REALITY IS THE MORE WE KNOW WE