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In the cold, especially the elderly. >> reporter: and the fda now says early data suggest rapid antigen tests still work to detect omicron, but they may have reduced sensitivity. >> we still are encouraging their use. they may not work as well as they had for the delta variant. >> reporter: and tonight, childrens hospitals are sounding the alarm about the accelerating covid impact, with pediatric hospitalizations doubling in the last month. >> our most precious commodity in this united states of...

Bigger and bigger, a certain percentage of them, we know, are going to end up in the hospital. a small percentage of a huge number can still be a really big number. we are already seeing with children that hospitalizations have gone way up. if we look at the week ending december 19, there were 206 hospital admissions per day for children in the u.s. now for the week ending december 26th, there were 305 per day. that is a big difference in a relatively short period of time. the numbers are still ...

Antigen tests, these at-home antigen tests may be less sensitive to picking up the omicron variant? thats a major piece of the strategy to keep schools open. really, to keep many of the, you know, airports and all these other important parts of our infrastructure open. >> i need to see more and so i wouldnt just yet. it is a good reminder that almost every tool we have, whether its a vaccine, a booster, at-home test, respiratory, mask, isnt 100% perfect. so its always wise to use, um, you know, ...

Virus without symptoms and have a negative test. thats what makes it tricky. >> and i guess theres nothing to do about that. you just wear your mask. theres no other solution to that one, right? >> thats right. then you have to make a judgment call about who youre interacting with et cetera. so and so i think what youre seeing now is both the white house and cdc are kind of drawing a balance. theyre trying to give a realistic assessment of these antigen tests, pointing out their strengths and we...

Was hard enough to get an antigen test in the first place, i mean, this is what frustrates people and i think keeps them from doing even people who want to do the right thing, the right thing. whats your take on this new fda study that mike and shaq just mentioned? >> honestly, chris, im is not shocked. for weeks now, we have been seeing clinically, people who are negative by a rapid antigen, three days in a row, even, and their pcr which theyll get on day three will be positive and theyll still...

Calling foul. >> when you have a leader overstep their authority especially in a time of crisis thats when you break this country. >> and to pile on some of the testing problems the food and drug administration just came out yesterday announcing they are not confident with those antigen tests, the rapid antigen tests you swab your nose and get results in 15 or 20 minutes. according to the fda those tests are less sensitive and not as effective in detecting omicron. trace. >> confusion abounds. t...

A tweet showing this picture of your research. tell us what were looking at here. what is the source of your concern based on your scientific research and data? >> so, good morning, john. when we look at this, there is absolutely no data that i am aware about with the omicron variant. its people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with the virus. my own work shows that when we look at people five, seven, eight days after they were first tested positive or first symp...

Parents to test their kids, send those back, that way they can assure fewer kids are positive in the classroom. youre hearing that concern because the spread is at this point uncontrollable, joe. >> doctor, weve got a lot of questions right now. lets start with this one. the fda put out an update that said early data suggests that antigen tests do detect the omicron variant but may have reduced sensitivity. explain for us, what does that mean for kids going back to school, for adults testing bef...

Some even keep a risk score on customers. i fear i might be on one of those blacklists. retailers are encouraging people to return their unwanted gifts directly to the physical stores, that way companies can make returned products available for resale to offset all these supply chain issues. "early start" continues right now. ♪ good morning, everyone. this is "early start." im laura jarrett. >> and im paula reid in for christine romans. it is 31 minutes past the hour. >> paula, great to ha...

Adherent to these recommendations. so were really saying if youre going to only isolate a certain period of time, we want to make sure youre doing so when youre maximally infectious those first five days, and please protect your others by wearing a mask those last five days. >> director walensky, good morning. this is jon lemire. i want to push you further on this. the uk moved its isolation from ten days to seven. whats the reasoning going all the way to five? and how do you address the concern...