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Recommendation then and once the director signs off on it, things are going to move very quickly. we could see the first boosters given out as early as thursday. david? >> and trevor ault in front of one of those very long testing lines in new york city tonight. trevor, thank you. we know you have questions at home. lets bring in dr. ashish jha. happy new year, great to have you with us, as always. unfortunate we still talk about the challenges of this pandemic, but we will get there. i want t...

And i want to talk more about covid testing because the lines we are seeing across the country are still really bad. here is the issue, this was a huge issue before the vaccine and it remains a problem now. this is a video of the testing lines just this morning in massachusetts, but the big thing is it did not have to be this way. a harvard trained scientist created an inexpensive rapid test at the start of the pandemic with the capacity to produce at least 100,000 tests every single week and th...

Through the storm. we spent so much time wallowing in the moment of the storm. we are fighting from a place of victory. we would get through this just as we got through the great depression on pearl harbor and 9/11. you go through the list. if you see yourself through the storm, you will be fine. i have lived through a lot of tragedies but i wont wallow in that place, i know there is something on the other side of covid, well be better and prepared as the future in front of us. i am going to lea...

Variant. well dig into that in moments. also in a few hours, president biden is scheduled to have that high stakes phone call with vladimir putin. at the center of it all, the tens of thousands of russian troops gathering for weeks on the ukrainian border. plus breaking on the economy. new weekly jobless claims are in and are lower than expected. 198,000 people filing for first-time unemployment benefits last week. and well start this hour with jake ward in san francisco. gary grumbeck in wash...

>> there is absolutely no data that i am aware about with the omicron variant that supports people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with -- with the virus. >> you either shut down the -- the society, which no one wants to do. or you try and get a situation where you can safely get people back, particularly to critical jobs, without having them be out for a full-ten days. >> reporter: long testing lines are still snaking across the country. new cases are skyrocket...

Theyre maximum infectious. >> reporter: still, the new guidance is drawing fierce debate among health experts. >> there is absolutely no data that im aware about with the omicron that puts people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with the virus. >> you either shutdown the society, which no one wants to do, or you try and get a situation where you can safely get people back particularly to critical jobs without having them be out for a full ten days. >> reporter: l...

Weeks. a hospital in chicago reports a fourfold rise. it doesnt appear the omicron variant is more dangerous for children, but it is highly transmissible. and holiday gathers could further fuel the surge in cases, including among children. >> i would say we have not seen the worst of it yet. >> reporter: with cases climbing, staffing shortages are still crippling industries. airlines canceling thousands of flights this holiday season. marylands federal courts scaling back operations. team usa ho...

Forfeit the world juniors tournament. the cdcs latest guidance aims to put people back to work more quickly but the recommendation to isolate for five days, instead of ten if infected but not symptomatic comes, also, with criticism. >> trouble is for the unvaccinated, the data doesnt really back up that they become noninfectious at five days. >> reporter: testing lines across the country are still intolerably long in too many places and frustration is mounting over failures to make more at-home ...

>> when it comes to tolerance, a look at the long testing lines, it seems to be in short supply. >> its crazy. ive been turned away from urgent care places, appointments have been cancelled for testing. nows been in line so im hoping this works so i can get back to work. >> the mid-atlantic area is getting hit especially hard by covid. new cases in washington d.c. up 120% in one week. trace? >> steve harrigan live for us in atlanta. thank you. heres the former cdc epidemiologist. thanks for bein...

Drizzly says 17% of wine delivered in december is actually champagne. its kind of surprising. all right. turning back now to covid, it was considered just unthinkable a few months ago. the u.s. shattering its record for average daily covid cases more than doubling in two weeks alone. this is thanks to a combination of both omicron and delta, which the cdc now says hasnt fallen into the background as much as first thought. >> now the fda says at-home coronavirus tests may be less sensitive to p...