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Parents -- last testing? lets just gonna put our kids at an even bigger disadvantage against countries like china. >> weve been over using and misusing testing for over 20 years. we were trying to close an achievement gap. that hasnt worked. weve been trying to get to 100 percent literacy. that hasnt worked. and by the way, our tests are created by third-party for profit companies that sell them to states, that give them to kids, targeting teachers and -- charter schools. thats with the industri...

Japan have imposed restrictions. the british government says there are no plans to reintroduce testing or additional requirements for anyone arriving in the uk. it says it will continue to monitor closely the prevalence and spread of any harmful variants, and keep international data under review. australia is also adopting a similar approach. - will continue to monitor the circumstances that are occurring in china and in other parts of the world as well as we do, we will take the appropriate adv...

Frankly you mentioned the death toll this is now the covid flu, the covid cold theres a lot more kids i have it but the masks were taken off. i believe more kids will get them as a killing kids or adults in the way that it was in the first wave? absolutely not. for them to use as a cash cow is getting old. >> its mutated down to a cold. i have friends in new york because of the testing regime and some popped up positive. whether there on stages or a restaurant they cannot work because of the tes...

Then isolate for no reason for not having covid. thats the thinking behind that. in terms of the travel testing, these things were reintroduced in an attempt to slow down the arrival of the omicron variant into the uk from abroad. once it is very prevalent in the uk and equally prevalent abroad, you dont need that any more. there is some economic rationale as well, because the travel companies, the ski companies and the airports and airlines were saying it was adding so much money to peoples hol...

Made some changes to the testing regime and the self isolation rules. because cases of coronavirus are so because cases of coronavirus are so high because cases of coronavirus are so high in the community at the moment, we no longer need routinely to take a follow—up pcr test after a positive lateral flow test result. a candlelit vigil on the steps of the capitol building in washington has marked the end of a day of remembering a year since the invasion of the us capitol. earlier the president...

At princeton university when students come back in mid january, theyre not allowed to venture out at at least through the middle of february. all princeton students are required to be vaccinated. what do you make of this, eddie? >> i think we have a wonderful and effective testing regime at princeton. we try to create the faculty and staff and the community is made up more of not just simply students and so i think this is important and last segment there was a phrase that was used that we need ...

Million kids, for example, in new york city or hundreds of thousands of kids in washington or cities across the country where we see people fighting to get into the cvs or walgreens. how do you get a testing regime for a country this big and all these schools? >> well, thats a great question. >> thankfully when the american rescue plan passed, included $10 billion for testing as early as march. there are protocols in place, the rocket foundation rolled up their sleeves. its not something new and...

Are in a different risk category than children who are vaccinated. most americans have chosen not to vaccinated their kids. but for those persons with kids underage five, that is a different risk calculus. but there are things that we could do to help make the workplace safer for parents, if kids of that age and that includes a good testing regime to make sure when youre coming into the office youre around other people who are testing negative or making sure that people are using masks and washi...

As you reporting just before i join you, our hospitals are overrun, we have to keep pushing and pushing. the fda has approved those boosters for young students and well continue our fight to make sure they are boosted so we can keep them safe. >> eddie glaude. >> hi miss pringle, its wonderful to talk to you. hade a case of breakthrough covid, i have to admit it put me down. it took me 10 or 12 days and i am still coming out of it. what do you make of a demand for a robust testing regime. some o...

And remains a real problem. but for some reason, that part of it never gets discussed and suddenly its out. by the way, the cdc released new guidance for testing that i think is only going to confuse a lot of people more. as noted in the labeling for authorized over-the-counter antigen tests, negative result should be treated as presumptive negative results. they do not rule out a covid-19 infection. dr. risch, so negative doesnt mean negative? >> well, im not exactly strong on the whole testing...