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Do you agree? >> they do. im in the d.c. area and we are seeing cases decline. we look for sustained declines, seven day averages and havent quite gotten there in our area but it is promising. new york and the northeast. however, unfortunately as cases decline it still means we are seeing hundreds of thousands of cases. that is not good news because that does have hospitalizations and deaths that follow so i dont want people to take the peak as a sign they can become complacent. >> the president...

People had been waiting in lines for hours. the video that we just showed was from last wednesday. have the lines gotten any sm smaller since then? >> no, the lines have not gotten smaller. i can tell you that we have as of today a bigger new testing site in the city that hopefully is going to help with the testing issue, what we did gave the doctor more resources to test more people and as soon as were done with this call, ill be heading over to the new testing site and see how that is rolling ...

Massachusetts teachers association, the union there, is asking that schools stay closed on monday. the union wants the day so teachers and staff can be tested after they say tests have been delayed in the supply chain. in a statement given to fox business the state of massachusetts is making clear that it will not close schools monday telling us quote, it is disappointing that once again the nta, the union, is trying to find a way to close schools, which we know is to the extreme detriment of ou...

We need to let people know they need to upgrade their masks to n-95 or equivalent because omicron is incredibly contagious. the testing issue is a huge issue. it has been a debacle since the very beginning. and it has not revved up to the degree that we need at this time. so my concern is that well still see an exponential increase in cases, and while were seeing a decoupling, just the sheer volume of cases will lead to an increase in hospitalizations that lead to hospitals being at or other cap...

If we put a limited number of tests where they will be most effective. >> dr. michael mina, thank you so much for your time. >> absolutely, thank you. looking for more perspective on this right now as to where it leaves us, and what we can see in the weeks ahead, retired admiral brett giroir, point man during testing for the trump administration. admiral, why is this testing issue so important? what will we do with the results of the tests once theyre administered? >> thank you very much for h...

Embracing. -- that the administration is now only embracing. we talked about the pills today from pfizer and merck. a lot of the effectiveness of those pills is based on getting diagnosed quickly. the testing issue is front and center. they have to tackle it and so much of getting this pandemic under control is dependent on that. >> david, we had aaron sorkin on the show yesterday. when i asked him what he thought about how joe biden was doing and how well he thinks he has handled covid, he said...

Theres been no contact between the former president and the current president and their teams but the president is certainly happy to see the former president changing his tunes on vaccinations and being more vocal in hurnlging his supporters to get the shot. >> thanks so much for your reporting. with us now is dr. leana wen, the author of "lifeline," doctors journey in the fight for the publics health." for the president and the country to get a handle on the virus, a key part. equation is know...

Says, but lets get back to the testing issue. between january and august there were really no government orders. the states didnt have orders and production lines closed down. we expected to have a billion test per month by may or june, thats not just us, academic researchers, and were only to the level right now that we should have been last february or march so there was a lull. it was multi-factorial but there was no problem with technology or availability. its just the orders werent there an...

On that score we are now where we should be. >> i dont think anybody anticipated that this was going to be as rapidly spreading as it did. >> two years in, there is no reason for my patients to have to wait hours to get tested. >> this pace, the speed by which omicron has been, you know, transmitting has been seen and mirrored in many other countries and so we have been watching this carefully. we anticipated this. this is what we have been preparing for. >> bret: so there they were preparing fo...

Tough love. he said already this is going to be a severe winter. he said multiple times that this is a pandemic of the unvaccinated, because the people who are dying and hospitalized, theyre disproportionately people who are unvaccinated. the biggest challenge, though, for this white house is that this is a pandemic that is also polarized politically. the people who need to hear most the message of getting vaccinated, of getting boosted, they are people who likely have political differences with...