we will need tests next year rapid and the bigger one and also need therapeutics because we invented them. i know you don t like to give them to us but we invented them. ainsley: to test or not to test, brian. that is the question. disease control sparking outrage leaving so many people confused. are you supposed toest it. how many days do you quarantine, five days, 10 days? do you wear a mask? mark meredith outside the white house as it insists the cdc s decisions are led by science. good morning lawrence. glad you are feeling better. it s no secret the u.s. is shattering covid records on a near daily basis. the white house is showing strategy. it says it is simply following the science. the cdc, which certainly come under a lot of criticism, ever since the pandemic began is still trying to clear up some confusion it created over its latest shortened quarantine
and rsv. a lot of times when you get sick, it s not just one culprit making you feel that way it will keep a close eye on whether hospitalization rates increase because of having covid and the flu. however, i can tell you prevaccine the rate of hospitalization for covid in kids was about that of the flu. so this is way will media trying to keep people in perpetual state of panic. apes ains last year didn t see any cases of flu. we have few this year but more covid cases. if you look at hospitalizations, almost 60,000 covid cases in the hospitals now and flu compare that to the flu 1.8000. almost 2,000. so not as many with the flu this year which one is more serious in your opinion? omicron or the flu? well, great question. and the truth is the flu and covid are very low risk for
thing. ainsley: well, if you read some of these reports, there are claims of turmoil, dysfunction, one claim describes kamala as a bully who dishes out soul destroying criticism. a source close to the latest person who left, mr. vincent evans says they are on good terms but he is not limping to the previous criticisms. jen psaki when asked about the turmoil in kamala harris office said oh, it s natural. it s a very positive thing for people to leave. it is 30 minutes after the top of the hour. desperate times call for desperate measures. rhode island hospitals now allowing covid positive staff to work after firing their unvaccinated workers. a once hailed healthcare hero who lost her job reacts next.
be. in we are not responsible for omicron but the fact that we weren t ready is a bureaucratic problem. i think that brings us, steve, right to the first issue, and that s kids in school. steve: you are absolutely right, brian. you know, you were talking about how the administration was caught flat footed. they were completely unprepared. remember, it was months ago when joe biden said this is going to be the winter of death and severe illness. we didn t even know about omicron at that point but that s when they should have been doing something behind the scenes and they weren t doing anything. in a couple of hours, we re going to have ron desantis on from florida. he is actually secured for his state hundreds of thousands of at home tests which is exactly what the people down in florida need. but, nonetheless, in chicago, where they duke it illinois took $5 billion of covid money to make the schools more covid-proof, essentially. better ventilation, masking,
their family at christmas or send kids back to school you can t find the tests. lines wrapped around buildings waiting to get in to get a test. this is just ridiculous. what has he accomplished? what has he done? look at afghanistan, brian. brian: yeah, steve, you had something to say? steve: i was going to say regarding testing, you know, joe biden said and the cdc said get a test if you can. and joe biden said google the closest place to get a test. i m at home and i could not get a test for we couldn t get any of the at home stuff. i went online for my walgreen s and it said it would be seven days. and then the pcr tests would come seven days after that. so it would take me two weeks to know whether or not i had covid. did i have covid as it turns out. my ent said go to a one of those urgent care places and i did. and i stood in line for five hours. the frustration in that line of five hours was palpable.