zuriel: st. jude gave us hope. stephanie: all you ve got to do is take care of your child, focus on her healing, give her a life. that for mother means a lot. and and thank you to st. jude. we are coming on the air here. president biden announcing a new ramp-up in the fight against covid saying the government is adding now testing sites across the country doubling amount of tests on the market. the president says schools should stay open this winter, but not all cities an states are doing that. this hour our heidi przbyla with our exclusive interview with the secretary of education. what he s saying about opening schools and different testing
who don t believe in the vaccine is following protocol, and i m trusting their results over something else. what s your take on that as a medical professional. we definitely need to get more sophisticated around our testing guidelines and parameters. we need to have a mixed approach. what is a mixed approach. there needs to be both availability of pcr tests which are the gold standards and being able to identify coronavirus infections as well as having at home rapid antigen tests. what are those tests best used for, tiffany? they re best used in a serial fashion. i recommend them to people in community. i recommend them to parents and to families. it is a way to say do i have symptoms, am i potentially infectious. is it a safe opportunity to leave my home. we need to get more realistic around the infrastructure that is needed in order to ensure
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really, really reckless. december jobs report marks the lowest jobs growth of the entire year, dana. dana: there is that and also i wanted to ask you about this. the white house is now defending the cdc amid criticism that its post infection quarantine guidelines were confusing. they were. they re holding a mysterious press conference at 11:00. you re set to hear from cdc director walensky. we didn t get a preview of what these remarks are about. they are scheduled at the same time the president will begin talking about the jobs report and it is very unusual to see walensky appearing. we see her alongside dr. fauci and other members of the coronavirus response team. the white house defended the cdc amid criticism that their revised testing guidelines were confusing and motivated by factors outside of science. team biden has expressed no willingness to part with the president s promise to shut
advisers urged the administration in a series of op-eds yesterday of a new normal living with covid and stop operating in absolute. the president said that is not necessary. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and the world is probably here to stay. but covid as we are dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many more tools we are developing and continuing to develop that can contain covid and other strains of covid. the white house defended the c.d.c. amid criticism their revised testing guidelines were confusing and also possibly motivated by factors other than science. dr. walensky took that head on in her first press conference outside the full response team since this summer. we are in an unprecedented time with the speed of omicron cases rising, and we are working really hard to get information