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There are 5,000 schools that are shuttered, and those kids are at home right now, and a significant number of those are in chicago. i think that the question comes to following the money and thats where the president i think perhaps could show a little bit more muscle and strengths on this issue and speak out about it much more strongly. i mean, it would be very interesting to see the president go before the people of the country and the people of chicago and say to these teachers, you must go b...

Public health efforts. but we still have some good news. the biden administration has purchased over 500 million tests. theyre on their way to providing 300 million a month. were also have these pilot programs with the health and human services and usda that we see here where theyre taking the tests to the people, into the communities that are vulnerable. if youre food insecure, you are more likely to get sick. you have lack of access, lack of space in your household to prevent from getting infe...

Of individual liberty. poppy? >> eva mckenn, thank you for the reporting. things are not any easier at colleges across the country from remote classes to quarantining. once back on campus. omicron is making this semester anything but normal at the university level. alexandra field talks to students about how they are faring. >> reporter: at the start of yet another semester, the fifth now of its kind, covid is creating more challenges for colleges and universities across the country. >> challe...

Still reliant on a zero coping strategy. neither give a huge degree of support against omicron or delta, which were still worried about. so, for the time being, were going to see a continuation of the pattern were seeing in china at the moment and a couple other places with a high degree of lockdown, mass testing and mass quarantining of both symptomatic in close contact people. symptomatic in close contact --eole. ., ., , people. doctor thomas, ust lookin: people. doctor thomas, ust looking fur...

Who became eligible a month or six weeks ago and she got boosted and 14-year-old who just got eligible and we are setting up an appointment for her in the next week or so. the issue is with omicron two shots provides some protection and certainly but 3 shots are much, much better. over the lung run we will come to realize this is a three-course vaccine, 3-shot vaccine like polio, i do feel comfortable and i think the data is pretty clear that 3 shots are really helpful. arthel: what is your guid...

People. we dont know to who or how many allowed but expected to be limited. these games are going to be far more strict than the tokyo summer olympics. ill be traveling in two weeks time but already i have to log in daily stats in this health app every day. when i go in, pcr tested every day, me and the other thousands of participants will be completely separate from the rest of the population the entire time. anyone arriving unvaccinated has to quarantine for 21 days and get this, jim, for all ...

A risk. that is not today. right? it has to be after the omicron wave and we need to be cautious because there might be things that happen. but all the data we have suggests that what happens in two months is probably going to be -- and that lifestyle is going to be the same as couple years. >> you also say it is much harder to stop covid right now than two years ago. given that, did you do you think people who test positive should still be quarantining? do you think those people who are quarant...

Already packing emergency rooms. washington state, on the verge of being forced to make tough decisions about which patients get access to care like dialysis. >> right now, we are closer to a crisis situation than we ever have been. >> reporter: health care workers continue to test positive. tonight, the california nurses association blasting the states latest guidance for health care workers, which says those who test positive and are asymptomatic can return to work without quarantining or test...

Win but novak djokovic, who has won it umpteen times — nine or ten or whatever it is — was not there, of course. we had this huge covid hoo—ha over that. do you think this is gonna go down as the tournament nadal put himself above everybody else in tennis or the one where that awful djokovic saga was played out? well, we thought last year was strange. weve had quarantining players, no spectators in for some of those matches, and this year has surpassed it again. i do think it will go down ...

Embarrassment for australia. shaimaa khalil, bbc news. alexander downer, is former australian foreign minister to the liberal party, the same party as the current australian government. he was high commissioner to the uk until 2018, and he spoke to my colleague jane hill about djokovics situation. well, it is a bit of a mess because the federal government in the form of the health minister wrote to tennis australia on the 29th of november to say that the fact that somebody who is unvaccinated ha...