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With the negative test you should be able to gather around other people again. the same is true for colds, the flu. you dont want to be around people with symptoms. here is the problem that i have, mike. why is it just talking about health care workers? why is it just talking about whatever they deem to be an essential worker? what about everyone else? what about children who have, maybe have the sniffles for 24, 48 hours? they could have a rapid test negative couple days after that but theyre s...

Because they dont have enough tests. but now theyre say federal gove governmenting if you get your hands on a test and test positive, you have to extend your isolation, so essentially, they are making it a dise disincentive to get tested. i think it makes sense for them to say if youre an essential worker, you have to go back to work and youre able to mask while at work, you can do so but with a mask. dont go to restaurants and other settings where you cant wear a mask because you can still be i...

We essentially changed recommendations based on a sub set of about 250 people. thats not enough to make generallizations for millions in this country. i also know that there have been comments from dr. auchy to come to a halt. we want peel could get back to work and if thats it -- that just leads to further staffing shortages dont the road so if we have way if youre doing it out of necessities or trow public. >> my neighbor athe street says im an essential worker and wants possible back in the c...

Put out some sort of an update or something to kind of clarify what they said last week, what they said last week a lot of people took issue with it because you can get out of isolation without testing. lets take a look at what they put up last week. last week they said if you have covid but youre asymptomatic or your symptoms are getting better you need to go into isolation for five days starting after that positive test and then after that you need to wear a mask for five days and you dont nee...

Here is an interesting question and there seems to be a possibility of movement on this, and that is the number of days you need to isolate if you test positive in the u.s. the uk announced beginning today theyre cutting the self-isolation period for vaccinated people from ten days to seven days. the idea being they dont want a shortage of workers as people stay at home if they test positive. cnn chief medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. elizabeth, dr. fauci raised this possibili...

Their booster doses. lets emphasize getting those boosters and getting those who are not yet vaccinated, vaccinated. >> part of the guidance we recently got from the cdc is what to do after five days of isolation once youre out, you have no more symptoms, they say these are the people you should stay away from after you end your covid five-day isolation, people who are overweight, battling depression, current or former smokers and pregnant people. thats nearly nine out of ten people. i dont know...

Transmissible, why should they be keeping you out of work, especially if youre an essential worker. youre not that transmissible after day five, so you can go out of isolation as long as you meet the criteria. jim? >> that graphic you showed is very revealing. it shows a steep drop in transmissibility days after that first positive test. elizabeth cohen, thanks so much for clarifying. lets dig deeper now, cnn medical analyst dr. leana wen joining us now. dr. wen, good to have you here. now, look...

Taking her to the hospital, the los angeles county usc medical center, where she had been a nurse for 38 years. dedicated woman whos been an essential worker throughout the pandemic. the hospital putting out a statement saying she was a kind, compassionate and giving nurse. we also know that theyre looking into more about this person. they said they found him about an hour or so after the incident happened and he was not very far away. he was sleeping, a 48-year-old man who they say was homeless...

To these protests? >> it started as a protest against that vaccine mandate which the trudeau government brought inen to january 15th. so any truck driver or any essential worker entering canada had to be double vaxxed. but a week later, on january 22nd, the biden administration brought in similar mandates saying that for anyone crossing in, any essential worker including truck drivers, you have to be double vaxxed. so even if trudeau dropped this tomorrow, these guys couldnt go in. this has grow...

Immunity or vaccines i know we have treatments were all good. i dont understand why justin trudeau doesnt just say were good here. everyone just work. >> geraldo: do you think the vaccine mandates are really issue now? >> dana: justin trudeau use these workers for a year, two years exceeds me. i made them go to work every day, call them essential, basely didnt provide them of what they needed. and then one stroke of the pen on monday said youre no longer an essential worker. now youre not essent...