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Asymptomatic people to five days followed by five days of masking. but the guidance making no mention of a test before leaving isolation. >> i actually think it would help a lot to ask people to get a negative test, as well. it would actually make a big difference, so i dont know why the cdc did not put that in. i suspect it might be because tests are still hard to come by and that may make it even harder. >> reporter: but new york city plans to make testing the center of a new plan to keep more...

Facial decorations. so, in light of omicron, what kind of masks should we all be wearing? and were you surprised by the pushback from your comments? >> well, i was surprised because this is not the first time that i or professor osterholm or really any of us public health experts have been saying that cloth masks are not appropriate for this pandemic. it was -- its not appropriate for omicron. it was not appropriate for delta, alpha, or any of the previous variants, either, because we are dealin...

Pr -- solemn prayer vigil on the steps of the capitol as members mark one year since the deadly capitol insurrection. i am not sure who is in the audience. i hope it is a bipartisan crowd. i do not know and cannot tell with the masking. i want to bring back my panel of security experts to discuss ways to stop another potential event. these threats go well beyond the capitol in washington, d.c. of course. i spoke with the homeland security secretary yesterday and he said this about what fuels thi...

About 75% of the hospitalizations, its not really going to make a big difference over the next month because they need a second shot, and then 14 days after the second shot. public health measures that weve mentioned, better air quality, masking, not going into crowded indoor spaces, those are really important measures in order to get past omicron. you need to plan today for three months from now so were not caught in the same problem. >> and with child hospitalizations hitting record numbers ac...

Going to give you your best chance at not continuing to propagate the virus. >> yeah, i have one of these. its a kn95, and my kids school just recommended either double masking or kn95 or n95 masks just because theyre better and its odd that the cdc hasnt made that clear. there are several examples with whether masks or boosters, where the cdc has made them more confusing than necessary. do you worry that the more the cdc tweaks its guidance, the more theyre losing the trust of the american peop...

Meal they get during the day and distance learning is in many ways a contradiction in terms. we want kids to be in school. then we have to do everything we can to keep them in school. the testing is a problem. so i think what we have to do is make use of the fact or understand the fact that we just dont have testing thats available. so the best thing to do then, if a child obviously has covid, they should stay home until theyre completely asymptomatic and then come back to school with masks and ...

For kids. >> correct. >> wow. >> what about if theres not masking in a school environment, still you argue it better to keep the schools, the schools are still safer. >> yeah, i think its a little more of a closer call there because youre going to have more transmission. we have an ongoing study of 60 school districts, 1.3 million children nationally involved in that study, and masking reduces transmission by about 80%. so youre going to have more cases and more transmission in these unmasked di...

School has been tough for so many reasons, and so many kids have been left behind over the past couple of years because its so hard to shift back and forth. and its hard to be in class remotely when youre in third grade and have to stare at a screen all day. >> i know. >> whats really tricky is we also know theres a chance teachers and staff are going to have to be out the next few weeks because of how transmissible omicron is. maybe not in school, but because of how we live our lives. i think i...

States like alabama and wyoming that are only 47% vaccinated we need -- we in the medical profession that are really burning out, we need local and state officials in those states to really convey that vaccines are the -- the right thing to do. its the patriotic thing to do to protect you, your family and your neighbor. its the right thing and the patriotic thing to do, jonathan. >> real quickly, dr. roy, the positivity rate in new york city is almost 20% right now. what do you expect in the nex...

Our children safely in school before we have vaccines. so now, today, what do we have for our children? we have vaccines, of course, that we can use, and we have school testing programs, we have new science that demonstrates tests to stay, and this is where a child might be exposed in the classroom, but if theyre exposed, they dont have to stay home in quarantine, they can test every other day or twice a week, and stay in the classrooms safely, and what that has demonstrated is hundreds of thous...