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Schooler did not go back to school all year long. it was just frustrating, it was un unfair. >> shiva, i know you both paid close attention to the way the board was handling it. what was it that you saw? >> i think the key issue was that the school was supposed to reopen in 2021. and i see on the bottom, a bullet that says middle and high school kids will not go back to school this year. thats essentially what happened. i would log into these zoom hours and these were would go on nine hours. i w...

We know now that covid is not going away. this next step, the ending of free testing, feels like a significant moment though as we start to live alongside this virus. jim reed, bbc news. and with me is our health correspondent, nick triggle. free testing is about to end in england, but daily cases have gone up england, but daily cases have gone up significantly. how will the government keep tabs on the virus question on it government keep tabs on the virus question 0— government keep tabs on t...

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Urgent things, overtime. obviously we hope that we can still keep urgent but nonemergency services running everywhere, but in every winter theres precious and times when hospitals have some difficulties. what covid will do is to make that considerably more difficult, so it will be patchy in different areas of the country, and at different points along the epidemic, and it will not reach a threshold but there will certainly be some hospitals and some areas of the country which will come under ver...

But those are additional ways to keep kids safe and testing in schools can be an added layer of reassurance, too. >> dr. desi, there are still extremely long lines throughout the u.s. for testing. i am sure you are seeing them in new york on your way to work and despite the presidents announcement last week about adding more, it may still take weeks for the uptake in home tests to meet the demand without the ability for the average american to go out and get tested when they need it. i mean, peo...

Fauci says he expects things to get better in january, but what happens until then? >> yeah, this is -- this is not where we should be two years into this pandemic. you know, look, i think the administration undervalued testing for much of 2021. they relied heavily on vaccinations, which of course are terrific and really, really important. but we did not build up the testing infrastructure we needed to manage this winter surge. and that means the next few weeks will be really tough and frustrati...

The first is this is an importance of getting quick testing. of course, our testing infrastructure is crumbling right now in the face of omicron, but a rapid test may be best so you can get treatment. the second thing to know, although this has been approved, its not going to be widely available right away. before you come into the er or go to your doctors office expecting to get a prescription, i would try to give them a call first. i expect that this is going to be rolled out across the countr...

Inconceivable. medical contributor dr. uché blackstock is the founder and ceo of advancing health equity. dr. blackstock, thank you so much for being here. im desperate to know what you want to hear from the president on tuesday. >> alicia, i need the president to be bold and courageous and innovative this tuesday. we heard so much about a very vaccine-centric strategy, and we need a plan that will involve layered mitigation, which we talk about so much. we need him to use his bully pulpit to e...

On the virus in a way we didnt back in march of 2020. we have surveillance, we now have testing infrastructure, rapid tests, yes, they should be free, all new york city will mail out a million. we also got pcr tests, all of these are getting overwhelmed as happens in an outbreak. we do have testing capacity that gives us some sense of whats going on. we also have quality masks. we know how to take steps to keep ourselves safe, masking in big indoor settings for instance, at-home rapid tests if y...

Testing even more accessible to people so they dont have to go through their insurance companies. we need him to talk about how hes going to make the testing infrastructure more robust. we also need to hear how hes going to set ventilation and air infiltration standards for businesses and schools and how hes going to close the gap in terms of vaccination rates because were still seeing the same inequities we saw at the beginning of the vaccine rollout. were now seeing with boosters in terms of r...