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. good day, everyone, this is andrea mitchell reports in washington. well, president biden is sending military doctors across the countries and promising a big increase at home and rapid tests in the omicron surge. but the persistent confusion over how long to quarantine after a positive result, when to test and what type of mask to wear at the white house playing defense. >> i know were all frustrated as we enter this new year. masking. masking. mask secretary an important tool to control the...

She take his mask off when he was giving testimony. do you leave the mask on, do you take the mask off, what kind of mask should you wear? apparently cloth mass are not very good in dealing with omicron. the cdc just came out with that information on friday. we are not sure what test to get, how want to isolate, when to come out of isolation, can you make head or tails out of what the government is talking about? >> we have different agencies that have not been on the same page. i think that tha...

You probably wont want them in the court with you. sonia sotomayor chose to appear remotely. there are restrictions in the court itself around testing and masking and things like that. do you see any irony the court considers it something of of a workplace safety issue to regulate the spread of covid in the place they are all are. >> i found irony in the fact that if you look at the omicron variant numbers the how high they are geing we are making a decision based on not having another safety pr...

Comfortable in any scenario or should you only be wearing a kn95 or an n95? >> everybody should upgrade. if the goal here -- i dont think anybody really wants to feel ill whatsoever, although thats where were headed. if you can, and we have some websites, i believe your team has websites that we can show. projectn95 or behealthyusa. yes, i would recommend that everybody wear it, especially if youre watching this right now and you have a high risk medical condition, if youre over 65. >> i was rea...

Who have gotten the booster shot with the strongest protection possible. vaccines are safe. theyre free. and theyre widely available. do it today for the safety of yourself, you kids, and the country. i dont like to outline the next steps were taking against -- i like to outline the next steps were taking against the omicron variant. vaccinations are obviously the most important thing were doing. but theyre not the only important thing. first, masking. masking. masking is an important tool to co...

Like you leave the best messages. scott was married and they were readying a nursery for her first born. yet something wasnt sitting right with her she thought. why would he call her. was there so often the sound of running water in the background as if he was masking especially south >> it was odd. the sound of their conversation. why are you talking to me in the shower. he blew it off. >> i could hear he was worried or something was going on. >> scott was contrite and said that he had a confoe...

Unvaccinated and people who dont believe in masking and so on. covid is continuing because of them, but then theyre complaining about the economy that is persisting because theyre refusing to do what will actually help the country. do you understand what im saying? >> yeah. look, i understand inflation is a factor in peoples lives, but i would hope we would look and see where history has told us that when you put inflation before democracy youre following the path of the 1930s germany. and we ha...

The 95% number, maybe that is true, maybe not true but thats not the point. the point is still you have that means 5% of schools are not open and that is a huge problem. it also doesnt address the point you just made which is that we are looking backwards here. the problem is that schools never should have been shut down in the first place. and we are going to be paying the price for the fact that these schools were shut down for no scientific good medical reason. we will be paying for the price...

>> americans are confused about where we are in the pandemic and i think its really important for president biden to lay out the two options. one is to prevent infection as the key goal. two is not just preventing infection, but lets get back to normal. if we are preventing infection, then the goal is vaccines, masking, testing, all these things that we have already been doing. but if the goal is returning to normal, then what president biden could say is that as long as vaccines are still prote...

The battle over pandemic policy could be reshaping how some voters cast their ballots as covid, masking, remote learning and schools plays out. parents, specifically suburban women, who helped propel the democrats to power in 2020 could be breaking ranks ahead of this years midterms. evan morris santoro joins us live with this. >> good morning. i went to ohio to find out just about this whole story were talking about right now. moms on two sides of this idea of what democrats are facing in the m...