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Leading health officials about a testing requirement for a smomic individuals to get back to their routines now they they shortened the isolation period to five days. how do you do that with the testing shortage? this is a critical question that the president will be facing when he meets with advisors later this afternoon. >> if you have covid, you should quarantine yourself. and if you become a smomic it is reasonable to wear a mask and go back into the world for five days while wearing a mask....

Challenges on employer vaccine mandates and additional strains on a depleted work force factored into their decision. the cdc is recommending people stay up to date and dealing fully vaxed status as the primary round of two shots. meantime lawmakers on capitol hill are gauging the need and the willingness to pass another covid relief package. the white house says theyre in constant communication with congressional leadership. >> neil: thanks, jacqui. what is confusing, the testing requirement an...

Sufficient? >> weve known the ten-day isolation period has been one size fits all. its usually the first five days of illness with omicron, its similar. at the end of that, 30% are still contagious. the cdc guidance was in the right spirit trying to make isolation something that people could do and make it reflect the science of when contagiousness is at its peak. it got muddled because it came out at a surge at the same time, a lot of demand for tests and tests in scarce quantities. looks like ...

Improvements. >> and though mr. biden promised to restore confidence after the trump white house manipulated public health guidance for political ends, the cdc is under fire for messaging confusion. >> its about the cdc toeing the line of whether or not were basing our guidelines on science. >> on masking -- >> once youre fully vaccinated, two weeks after your last dose, you can shed your mask. >> the window for boosters. >> for up to six, eight -- perhaps, we dont know. >> six months. >> five m...

A testing requirement for the unvaccinated set to kick in next month. heres what justice sotomayor said about the covid cases in the u.s. and children getting sick. watch this. >> we have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. we have over 100,000 children which we have never had before in serious condition. many on ventilators. >> martha: not true. the number is 3,500. thats on the high side according to the numbers that we looked at. lets bring in k...

President trump put pressure in a way that was appropriate on the fda peered saying hey, go through your process and lets get these therapeutics out there. lets get this vaccine out there. indeed, we did in record time. they produce those therapeutics. they ordered those vaccines in advance peered look, i totally agree with the new messaging needs to be weve got to live with this virus. but, that does not mean, that this administration should not be held accountable for the false promises that t...

Choose to stay out of the classroom because of covid. live in chicago, a raging debate. grady, when could a walkout actually happen? >> chicago public schools, sandra, are back in session in-person today, but the chicago teachers union is threatening to walk out later this week because of the rising covid cases. the union asks the school district to implement new safety protocols to start the new year, and they asked the district to go virtual for the first two weeks of the year while they imple...

Or we quarantine people because we dont know if theyre infected, rapid tests are a good solution to this problem because we can know with very high accuracy if somebody is walking into school is positive and infectious before they do so. so thats the whole idea of test-to-stay programs. we dont have to close things down. i personally dont feel we should be closing schools again. we do have the tools, whether through masks. of course the vaccines are helping and, of course, if we have testing bef...

Good news though, major airlines are issuing travel waivers. that means passengers who have been impacted can rebook free of charming. >> and you say theres trouble with international flights coming into the u.s. >> this is a knew call from the largest travel and hospitality organization. it says the federal government should relax international travel testing requirements. right now you have to show proof of a negative coronavirus test taken a day before your flight even if youre fully vaccinat...

Obviously very notable. theres been a lot of discussion among democrats that the guidance only changed over the weekend. members were told they could choose whether they want to wear the masks. and there has been a lot of discussion with democrats today if they were comfortable with this, if theyre willing to drop the masks and go back to formality. and now the chamber, we see the vast majority have chosen to do so. >> garrett, am i right that there was a testing requirement for people to have t...