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Making on how were addressing the pandemic through messaging or through political concerns. >> harris: jackie heinrich live at the white house. >> they are defending the cdc admit criticism its new post infection testing guidelines are confusing saying the president has full confidence in his medical team of experts at the cdc. this as the director walensky denies a nationwide testing shortage influenced the agencys decision not to include a testing component in the revised quarantine guidance. ...

Remarks. the cdc guide as, expecting an update to it, not a change imminently. the reason its not going to be a significant change is youre not going to see them come out and change drastically from what that recommendation was last week, which as you just noted was cutting that isolation period in half from step days to five days, but the criticism that the cdc faced over that new guide as is they did not require or recommend a rapid test at the end of those five days. a lot of outside medical ...

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Questions head on. she has been working with a democratic media consultant to improve her communication patterns, but its not just the communication that is coming under scrutiny. its also the crafting of some of this policy. theres a scientist within the cdc who told cnn they were frustrated with how some of these policy decisions are made. that often walinski is working and consulting with just a small group of advisers rather than going through a more scientific, thorough vetting, but right n...

Physical classrooms as they reassess how to deal with this highly infectious omicron variant. >> dana: on other days would get 2022 underway. thank you, jonathan. >> trace: president biden is set to meet with his covert response team today for the first time in over two weeks. americans wait for his 500 promised free at home covid tests. white house correspondent is with us on the north on. >> good morning. the president will be receiving that covert briefing this morning. we are expecting an up...

Going out there and communicating the new guidance. as she did recently when they changed that isolation period. if youve tested positive for covid-19. that is something that generated a lot of criticism, not just from people who are confused by it, jake, but also from doctors who said, yes, it did need a testing component to it. and so the other thing that weve heard, jake, is this criticism is not just coming from outside the cdc. its also coming from inside the cdc where its a lot of career s...

To do here is protect more people and save more lives, whether you work here or at the cdc or the fda. >> is the president okay with the fda making these authorizations without calling their panel of experts? >> again, the fda can speak to their decision making process. >> the florida surgeon general. what is the reaction to his comments that the u.s. needs to unwind its testing psychology? is that sound medical advice? >> i would point to our own health and medical experts and our focus on when...

More of them available to american households, putting them out in places like public libraries and community centers and so forth. they are very hard to come by. the question of if you have an asymptomatic case or a case with symptoms that resolve, do you need a test before you go back to the workplace or school or so forth? that testing component is one of the big questions. will that be required? we are waiting to hear. >> kelly, thank you very much. dr. patel, let me turn to you. help us sor...

>> we heard the cdc could soon add a testing recommendations to the five-day isolation guidance, was it a mistake to not include a testing component when they released the guidelines the other day? >> wolf, the virus is adapting. the omicron is an adaptation. we need to adapt also. that means changing recommendations in real time, and inevitably without all of the information we wish we had about severity and other factors. the cdc hasnt explained their decision. they are thoughtful decisions, t...

When 20% of teachers and staff got sick or certain percentage of kids were out. i think thats going to be the case here, that most schools are going to find that they dont have adequate staffing to be able to keep schools going for a period of time. hopefully that will be short, and that the same kind of trajectory that we have seen in south africa with really rapid rise in transmission and then dramatic fall is what well see. and that hopefully it will be a matter of weeks, you know, before thi...