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To to start us off this hour to. begin we start with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. lets go through what the cdc is doing here for health care workers. what are the new guidelines? >> pope, its really interesting because large lit cdc is leaving its individual hospitals to decide what they are going to do with their health care workers who have omicron but who are either asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. everyone wants those folks working if they can be working so lets take ...

Immune compromised, for example, kasper patients, they might not have worked very well for you so the government is trying to come up with solutions, but some people are saying they missed the boat but should have come up with conclusions months and months okay. >> be proobjective and not reactive. joining me now is a public health specialist based in atlanta. good to have you. lets start there in atlanta where the cdc is as well. so they changed these rules for health care workers to try to get...

And this kidney dialysis patient and when she tested her antibodies she didnt have detectable levels and this cancer patient the same situation. candy johnson, a transplant kidney patient same situation. they are now able to get the-and-bodies that they couldnt get from the vaccine. theres 7 million immune compromised people in the united states according to the cdc and the u.s. government ordered 700,000 doses so those first doses are coming in. a hospital, for example, in massachusetts saying ...

Unlike last year we have tools to gather safely this year, but hardships remain. there are struggles to find tests and testing. u.s. cases just spiked 48% from last week and right now new infections are topping the wave we saw from delta. hospitalizations are also up. the cdc is taking action before the winter wave now shortening a time that health care workers have to test after testing positive. airlines today pushing for that same guidance and staffing shortages are grounding hundreds of chri...

This a little bit at the town hall. he said he believed the cdc will lightly suggest and ask kids ineligible for the vaccine to wear masks just in a weeks time before classes resume. the issue is they would like to get the vaccine use available for emergency ought san diego for kids 5 through 12. were talking halfway through the school year when some of those kids will be eligible. the thing is a lot of these schools and localities are not waiting to make these decisions. theyre saying, were goi...

Correspondent kelly odonnell has more on face coverings. >> reporter: the delta variant mask debate. president biden says he has talked to his covid experts about mask rules for vaccinated americans, but so far no change is planned. >> a 25-person group we put together are looking at all pockets of whats happening now. >> reporter: the cdc director has a message for the fully vaccinated. mask wearing is it to you. >> you may choose to have an extra layer of protection by putting on a mask, and t...

Of course, these conversations are taking place between top white house officials and others in the biden administration, particularly agencies like the cdc and hhs because theyre constantly evaluating the evolving science and data, and when it comes to changing mask guidance, we know that would be a very thorny issue, especially for this white house and this president that just weeks ago on the fourth of july declared an independence from the virus, held that massive event with more than a thou...

See. >> you remember back in 2006, we were reporting so much. its been going on. we are seeing more of it. come out into the environment. remember, we get it from contact with an infected wound, sharing utensils. >> what does that mean for going to the gym, too? >> i tell you what the cdc says, this is important. it says its okay to keep playing sports. we are talking multiple sports. remember, wrestleers get this. other sports players that have close contact t.cdc says its okay to play once you...