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Its so much better. well, next holiday season, i doubt it will be gone. it will be endemic. it will be rpbd. but it will be much, much better than this year. while the virus continues to change, so do we. >> break out your crystal ball. is 2022 going to be the year we finally get a hold of covid. >> it depends on how you define getting a hold of it. it is a winter virus. we will probably see a surge next winter as well. but the question is what level of disease and hospitalization and death were...

Caused a wave of disruptions including school closures, staffing shortages and new mask mandates. katie pavlich editor of town hall.com and fox news contributor. i want to rewind the clock if i can. 19 seconds and it is worth watching joe biden then. watch. >> president biden: testing, tracing, masking. not politicizing the race for a vaccine. im going to shut down the virus. well deal honestly with the american people and well never, ever, ever quit. ill put in place a plan to deal with this pa...

Spreading quickly and it will have implications with our society. we have to weigh that in. with that we have to go with the science first and there are other potential tools on the table if the administration was able to make this available so rather than trying to limit isolation which could, of course, allow people to be passing on virus before they fully cleared, it i would have rather seen an upgrade in the vaccine requirement to be three shots instead of two. i would have seen an upgrade i...

She really understands infectious diseases and public health. im concerned that the messaging coming out of cdc is polluted by politics. one of the examples is the teachers union is always involved warning schools shut downs. and the same thing with this issue of masking and the same thing with testing. it should have been the isolation for a certain period followed by a rapid test. maybe they didnt have the rapid test. its all politicized and mixed up. >> martha: we were told this administratio...

>> yeah, i think families just need to see that 8.8 billion doses of covid vaccines have been given worldwide. so we know its safe. we know it is effective. we know that youre more likely to become hospitalized if you are not vaccinated. so that all speaks to itself. vaccines are also a very important layer in your protection against the virus and so that includes masking, distancing, good vept lags, good hygiene. dont go to school if youre sick. we know a lot of kids are about to go to school n...

Therapeutics to treat covid. instead these people in the white house have been jaw boned about masking, vaccines, and testing be at all three of those have been a failure. >> they are going up a website live on wednesday, we will be monitoring that. and then -- >> im sure it will go well. >> jesse: it could take up to 12 days to shift the tests once you order it. 12 days. what is it, carrier pigeon? how are they getting them? >> what about ordering something today? i know you have a big weekend ...

Transitioning children, and, yet, here they are spending money on turning monkeys trans. what the heck is going on here? >> chuck berry had a song about it years ago called too much monkey business. but this has been pretty historic because its finally brought people like me, an avid hunter and peta together on the same page. who would have ever thought. joe biden was right. he is bringing the country together. is he getting people from about as far as away as you can get to come together and sa...

Older are now also fully vaccinated. that along with universal masking are some of their strategies that have been able to help them keep schools open this entire academic year. now at the same time, the surge across the los angeles county area has been very serious, especially for children. childrens hospital los angeles told me that they have seen quite an increase in hospitalizations there. among the children coming into that hospital, testing for covid-19, the positivity rate went from 17.5%...

Improvements. >> and though mr. biden promised to restore confidence after the trump white house manipulated public health guidance for political ends, the cdc is under fire for messaging confusion. >> its about the cdc toeing the line of whether or not were basing our guidelines on science. >> on masking -- >> once youre fully vaccinated, two weeks after your last dose, you can shed your mask. >> the window for boosters. >> for up to six, eight -- perhaps, we dont know. >> six months. >> five m...

Reiner, im not sure if you heard ability the sound bite, previous steps to mitigating covid that might not be as effective during this surge. 6 plus feet of social distance, et cetera. if the answer is more stringent steps how do you persuade a public that is already ignoring them and covid fatigued? >> yeah. its challenging. i think we have to just continue with the messaging that weve been using and try to be available as health care providers to answer the questions that families have. but it...