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Press conference this evening, and it would seem that as that was being briefed, the dispute between the treasury and department of health had not been settled and of course, naturally enough, labour are saying the government is chaotic and incompetent, but there are deeper concerns about the testing regimen, because if you get it rid of the need to self—isolate, then labour and unions and other people within the health service are questioning whether it is wise to dramatically reduce access t...

Rather from the mayor over the weekend, thats a major focus of the strategy to keep kids in school. take a listen. >> the stats are clear, the safest place for children is inside the school. were going to create a safe environment with testing, identify the children exposed. the numbers show the mere fact a child is exposed in a classroom doesnt mean the entire classroom is exposed. >> reporter: 2 million rapid tests are made available. the assistant principal says they have the rapid tests at t...

Panels but from president trump not president obama. the question now is will there be any legal accountability for those deaths? because many of those people did not have to die. it was negligence. some would argue criminal negligence. trump knew how deadly the virus was all the way back in february of 2020 even as he publicly played it down. >> it is through air, bob. the touch you dont have to touch things. the air you just breathe the air. that is how its passed so that is a very tricky one....

From for four days had a positive test, he, as the white house chief of staff, obviously the president is my friend, shouldve looked at me and told me that. thats obvious. but i think whats less obvious is that mark meadows saved this for his book. he saved it for a book. i went into the hospital in the intensive care unit. he didnt call and tell me. so i think thats inexcusable. >> you had always suspected that you got it from the president. is that right? >> the only reason i had suspected it ...

President trump had tested positive for covid several days earlier than was publicly known in that former chief of staff mark medicine toes didnt tell anyone. listen to this. >> if mark meadows knew that somebody that i was sitting across in for four days had popped a positive test, he, as white house chief of staff -- put aside the president for a second. obviously, the president as my friend should have looked at me and told me that. thats obvious. but what is less obvious is that mark meadows...

Reported. he had an obligation to tell us, tell us, hey, he tested positive. i would have worn a mask if we knew that. we knew everyone in the room except the president was getting tested every day. we didnt know what the presidents testing renl men was. so if mark meadows knew that somebody i was sitting across from for four days had popped the positive test, he as the white house chief of staff -- put aside the president for a second. obviously the president is my friend -- should have looked ...

Properly. is our testing regimen ready for omicron in the united states? >> thanks for having me. a lot happened this past week and a lot to catch up on but one of the critical components in getting in front of outbreaks such as the sars-cov-2 is our testing capability. last year, it was dismal. i would give some kudos to the united states. we have, in the u.s., increased our testing surveillance from about 21% to less than 1% to 10%. however, its not equally distributed across the country, not ...

Three or four weeks we know that any of the vaccine the longer you space out the doses the better the long-term immune protection. arthel: what is your recommendation about young people getting a third shot. guest: the committees at the fda the cdc were concerned about young people and repeatedly raise that concern and also we dont have good data and young people like we do older people again were talking about the pfizer vaccine. so people have to remember that young people almost intrinsically...

For their own communities. >> were you elected governor tomorrow, if you were governor today, would you require state employees in florida to be vaccinated? >> no. i have the power to do so inside my department of agriculture. so we would not be requiring vaccinations but we would be doing more to encourage, to incentivize to make sure were having those hard conversations with individuals who are not getting the vaccines to make sure they understand youre putting your colleagues, your friends, y...

Later, where iowa has banned mask mandates for those schools, most grades are not eligible or a lot of kids are not eligible for the vaccine because theyre under the age of 12. what should be the testing regimen for these schools? should they start with a baseline of every student being tested? should there be testing every week, every two weeks, month, what do you think? >> yeah, i mean, i think its too bad that these schools are not requiring masks because they are a really effective layer of ...