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to to start us off this hour to. begin we start with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. let s go through what the cdc is doing here for health care workers. what are the new guidelines? pope, it s 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 let s take a look at what the cdc has done. the cdc says the health care worker is asymptomatic or just a bit sick and getting better. they can come back after seven days as long as they have a negative test. that used to be step days, but they are also telling hospitals, hey, if you want to have a contingency plan, you did say five days and no test necessary, and we ll leave that up to you whether or not you should be going through this contingency plan, and if things are really bad and you feel like yo
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. let s start there in atlanta where the cdc is as well. so they changed these rules for health care workers to try to get more people back to work sooper. what is your take on that and also i wonder if you think it should be applied to other industries who are asking for it now? merry christmas, poppy. nice to see you on the chair. listen. i think that you found the
and this kidney dialysis patient and when she tested her antibodies she didn t 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 couldn t get from the vaccine. there s 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 we expect to get enough in this first shipment for 1% of our patients who could use this drug. poppy. i hope they can get more very, very soon, especially how effective it s proving to be. yes. before you go, there is something really important that we re learning about the risk of hospitalization or deaths from covid-19 that it s similar among
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 christmas eve flights. people are stranded and mask mandates are still in place and the fatigue is real and so is the loss. right now roughly 1,500 americans are doing of covid each day, most overwhelmingly unvaccinated. over 815,000 mesh lives now lost to this virus. our hearts are with those families, especially this holiday. several covid headlines to get