. -- nuzzo reads the research.ork times has a standout article on the silly plastic barriers that have invaded our lives, including john hopkins university research which say desk screens could actually give us an increased risk versus intelligent use of masks. can you help us with the plastic and golf in this -- the plastic that has engulfed us? i am hermetically sealed from lisa and john. i have not hugged lisa in like 18 months. lisa: that's not because of covid. [laughter] tom: help me. jon: i think lisa needs your help. tom: and -- i miss you guys so much. jennifer, on the plastic screens, help. jennifer: let me reach over and hugged tom, he needs it. lisa: go ahead. jennifer: we don't have a lot of evidence for a lot of things. intuitively, there are probably some environments that don't make sense. people that have a lot of exposure with the public putting another barrier between those people and the people they are serving i think makes a lot of sense. when you see people sitting at a desk and they have a t

nuzzo: we are not.ly scale back the amount of testing we are doing and an amount of that might have been expected as case numbers fall in the spring but testing was scaled back even before we had our winter surge because states had to get ready to give out vaccinations and they can only do so many things at the same time. vaccinations are clearly an important priority but testing is also important. it is something we should be looking harder as, how do we get back to the testing levels that we used to be at to make sure we have cast a wide enough net for infections and people may nothing to get tested or want to get tested but cannot find a place to go or are worried about the cost. lisa: this may sound narrow, however this has great implications for a lot of offices trying to reopen and get people back in their seats. should people vaccinated should be tested? dr. amos should all just said that is unnecessary, and others say at this end, you will probably not get that sick, let's live life. is it impor