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That. officials say the new guidance is driven by research about when we are most infectious as well as with the reality of cases exploding, theres a need to keep our country running. to keep essential services going. scott gottlieb says this, quote, the new guidance reflects a growing reality that were going to have to learn to live with covid as a persistent risk and cant let it shout down society. the guidance comes as the country is seeing staggering levs of new cases. more than 500,000 new ...

What comes after this in the midst of the. but metrics are important. the reason this search is different is that this high number of cases, at least during this search mattered for two reasons. one is one what doctor fauci just said. we have this huge number of cases, and the virus find people who are unvaccinated and finds people who are vulnerable. and then you have increased number of bikes -- they are reaching the steam peak that they had last winter. despite the number that weve seen, ther...

Omicron have even most symptoms or minimally symptomatic. >> back on tv tonight, the controversy over the new guidance on reducing covid isolations show no signs of going away. the washington post reports the recommendation to cut the isolation period for asymptomatic infected people to five days was driven largely by the concerned by essential services might be affected during this latest surge. this morning, the cdc director offered this explanation for the decision. >> we it really had a lot ...

Cdc had a tough time here. they were trying to balance in this month in january with the number of cases that weve had, if there are people who are not transmitting, already finished their symptoms or never symptomatic to begin with, how do you ensure that balance between trying to get people to be able to go pack to work for essential services, so the balance with that is, you know, making sure that people are not going back to work while theyre still transmitting. so the importance of i think ...

Maintain essential services. it will ensure that vaccines are administered and schools can reopen. >> martha: that was the pitch for a $2 trillion -- we talk in terms of trillions -- rescue plan with more than $100 billion that was directed at schools nor testing, for plexiglass, for all the ability so they would never have to close in the face of this virus again. more than 4,000 schools are closed. we followed the money. what did they do with the money? wait until you hear this when we come ba...

And it meant that they felt they didnt have enough staff to safely cover all bases as it were. theyve given an update today saying that all essential services are fine and if you need to come to hospital, you should come to hospital. but itjust underlines the fact that staffing levels are very stretched. and as numbers of covid cases go up in society, when all the medics and doctors and nurses, they live in society, too, and their cases are going up, too, so youve got more and more of them absen...

Weekend unless it is for essential needs that buying food or medicine and unless there is an emergency happening. at the moment there is not clarity about what this means for establishments that currently are open like restaurants for example by shops which are setting nonessential items. but what the minister said in his press conference was that it would be in curfew and people are being told to it is for essential needs. they have also announced that people working in government should be wor...

And under other circumstances you would not think twice about it. but you have no choice — you cant go into work. thats right, and we have the added problem, of course — other aspects are being disrupted. so the transportation hub, of course, lots and lots of airline cancellations because ground crew is out or air traffic controllers are out. but also essential services — emergency personnel are also out of the workforce now, and we do not have all the tools we should have, we do not have ...

New guidance on masks? the stark difference in protection if youre in a room with someone who has covid, depending on the kind of mask you have on. our chief national correspondent matt gutman leading us off tonight. >> reporter: tonight, omicron cases exploding, a record 1.4 million in a single day, driven by a backlog of reporting from the weekend. and those numbers pushing hospitals to the brink. > at the current moment, we are completely inundated with covid patients. our in-patient volumes ...

A critical incident has been declared at hospitals in lincolnshire in the east midlands of england because of covid—related staff shortages. our correspondent danny savage has the latest from lincoln. that critical incident was declared here across the lincolnshire hospitals trust on saturday night. so, that includes this big hospital here in lincoln, one in boston, one in grantham as well. and it meant that they felt they didnt have enough staff to safely cover all bases as it were. theyve gi...