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Have to be able to augment staffing using federal assets, military assets, hhs assets to make sure no hospital goes down, and hospitals need to think about load balancing and making sure that no hospital in a given region is over burdened with cases. i think we can do this, but its going to require coordination and a lot of people realizing this is going to be a disruptive couple of weeks until this surge is over. >> there was an unusual criticism from six former advisers to the president during...

Something that cdc director walensky has defended since and today on the call with the briefing with reporters she did say she wants to restore communication and make it better at the cdc. of course, whether or not that happens or if its too late for people to restore the trust in the cdc is a big question because each the cdc scientists have said the process of putting that guidance together at times doesnt really go outside of a small circle of walenskys advisers and so then by the time its ou...

Say this is unsustainable. [inaudible] -- prevention and additional level where we offer some consistency for children. will: yeah, look at this really quickly. doctor liesman, 31% jump in mental health emergency department visits among kids age 12 to 17. this number is just heartbreaking. 51% jump in visits among girls for suspected suicide attempts. doctor, i sit on the show, we do the stories week after week. they come in one at a time. we know by the way there is not enough psychiatrists out...

What about how contagious this is? i know were saying its more contagious than the other strains. but does that mean its more contagious in all settings? because when i walk outside now, and maybe partially this is because its cold and the mask keeps your face warm, but outside i would say 80% of people that im coming across at rockefeller center are wearing masks. is it more contagious outside as well? >> no. i mean, it has the same degree of transmissibility no matter where it is. its just tha...

Affected by this with delays. were damned if we do and were damned if we dont. the economy is going to suffer and the workforce is going to suffer, more kids are going to get sick. there is absolutely no way to keep omicron out of the schools. no way. its more transmissible, it passes through and looks just like a cold and what were going to be relying on is testing in addition to the standard practices of masking, social distancing and hand hygiene. but the testing that were using, these antige...

Democratic senators tripled down on their opposition to senate changes that would be neededs to pass the bill. first the u.s. supreme court and what the decision means for the president and the nation. fox news chief legal correspondent and anchor of fox news at night shannon bream joins us now. good evening, shannon. >> hello, bret, in that pair of split decisions the supreme court handed the biden administration both a major loss and a smaller victory. in blocking a workplace vaccine mandate t...

Everything will be omicron and more and more people will be affected and we literally wont be age to sustain our infrastructure. were seeing it in the airlines, on the commercial side, the grocery stores where we need to get food to people. i think what they did was the right thing. they have to acknowledge we dont have good data on testing, so therefore they didnt include it. i understand that. i do have a real concern about masking. dont tell people just to mask. quality mask. n-95 respirators...

Billion at-home covid texts next week to help americans through the pandemic blizzard sweeping the land. but another storm is engulfing the centers for disease control facing sharp questioning over new guidelines for covid-weary americans. >> it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. >> reporter: recommendation of five instead of ten isolation days for those testing positive but showing no symptoms, then five days of masking, is aimed at keeping people work...

Or not fully vaccinated children and children under 5 who cannot be vaccinated. so, you know, the measures that we should be taking because, frankly, our schools should be the last to close and the first to open, we all need to behave in a way that will keep us safe and keep our children safe and need to get everybody vaccinated and with good ventilation and masking well minimize the spread. theres that one other thing, fredricka, which is rapid testing. if we had abundant rapid testing we could...

Right now to get past where we are? >> well, unfortunately, if you vaccinate today, the people who were unvaccinated -- who account for about 75% of the hospitalizations -- its not really gonna 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. what were s...