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Variant or before, we had a lot of -- proudly, texas had a lot of mass testing sites. and it was fairly easy to go get tested, we have all this land, it was easy. >> reporter: and now? >> its two to three days in advance. we ordered a lot of home kits so we can do our staff so they dont have to run around the city trying to find them. but theres only so much you can do, theyll run out of those and then well be in the same boat. >> reporter: that testing situation only complicates this latest omi...

He is allowed five cues an hour. my staff downstairs. >> ainsley: brian, i thought you were working remotely according to the press. >> brian: turns out they reported all wrong, ainsley. right. but they did. so, lawrence were going to work that out after because there is money in the rescue plan to get you money for these -- to satisfy your invoice. >> lawrence: exactly. >> brian: we will be talking about that over the next two hours. we have so much to report and big interview to announce tomor...

>> bret: thoughts? >> yeah, i mean that raises this important question about whether or not we need to take a new look at the testing overall and what value there is any more of doing all of this testing, in particular, to allow people to goat into venues, et cetera. when its not really catching all the people who are out there. it is driving a lot of panic, as bret mentioned, when you look at those numbers. the numbers that really should matter are those about how many people are actually going...

Hes going to learn a little bit more about the effort to try to direct resources to states right now and likely to be asking questions about the testing situation right now, the white house saying it wanted to provide 500 million tests to americans, but that contract to be signed in the course of the next couple weeks. its likely that number 500 million tests will not be available this month. it may be a matter of marks. >> dr. gupta, lets talk about the cdc announcement shortening the time betw...

Louisiana. so if you look at a heat map it is almost all the eastern half of the country right now and will change and start going down most likely in a couple weeks within the eastern half and then rarp up in the west. we need granular decisions how to operate. >> i just want to mention also the biden administration and the president committing to 500 million at-home tests into the public to help with the testing situation but not a time line on that. dr. peter hotez, thank you. it is great to ...

>> it is, indeed, an immense toll. emilie, thank you so much for your reporting and stay safe. as classes are set to resume tomorrow amid a record holiday covid surge, some holidays are pushing for a test-to-stay in-person policy. but the testing situation across the country right now is not where it should be. well find out whats being done and what isnt being done, next. e and what isnt being done, next. that was in these clothes... ugh. but the clothes washed in tide- so much cleaner. if it...

We dont know how antigen performs with regard to predicting transmissibility towards the end of your period of infection. so, with a negative antigen test, we still ask you to wear a mask, positive antigen test we say still wear a mask. since it wasnt going to make a difference in our recommendations we did not recommend a antigen at that period of time. >> mike: admiral, did the cdc just confuse everyone with updated guidelines. >> they certainly confused me and they themselves confused with th...

I know this is a week where oftentimes we are tired because of the holiday and forget what day of the week it is but this messaging on covert is all over the place not just this week. this has reached a new level. can anyone follow this? we have no federal solution according to biden but tons of federal mandates and funding so any of these federal mandates or at least push back to these federal mandates in court, touting a federal plan, the testing situation is an absolute disaster. there is no ...

Period is two to three days. i went to see my mom who is 87 years old and umno suppressed. i tested myself 24 hours before seeing her and tested myself right before i went into her house literally as i walked into the house, to make sure i was double tested before i walked into the house to prevent inadvertently infecting my mother. >> testing continues to be a struggle for so many nerns. weve seen the long lines of people wrapping around buildings trying to get their hands on a test or at-home ...

To get tested for covid. the white house is facing increase criticism over its handling of the testing situation. dr. anthony fauci saying this today. >> we should be using testing much more extensively than we have, even in a situation where you have people who are vaccinated or boosted, but the situation where you have such a high demand, a conflation of events, omicron stirring people to get appropriately concerned and wanting to get tested as well as the fact as the run on tests during the h...