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Growing pressure to deliver with many people having to wait for hours to get tested during the holiday rush. now after promising to distribute tests the president wishes he had done it two months ago. rich edson starts our coverage live at the white house this morning. good morning, rich. >> good morning, julie. the white house is trying to get those tests out some 500 million of them where americans will ideally be able to go online early next month, order them, get them delivered to their home...

Order one to be sent by the government. that may mean ohm one to two tests per person. the white house is still building this plane as they fly it. they dont yet have the contracts where to get those tests. they dont have the website built where people will order them. they cant exactly tell us when those tests are going to be available to people, although they say hopefully sometimes in january. i think its fair to say at this point that the white house put a lot of their eggs into the basket o...

Vaccinated. they need to focus on getting vaccinated and boosted. the highest risk population and then from there we need to make sure that we have treatments available if and when they do get sick. carley: conversation almost exclusively on testing yesterday. is there such a thing as overtesting a population even asymptomatic people? >> carley, test something very important. that gives us an idea of what is going on and where the cases are. i can say though he is talking about -- they didnt exp...

Youve been calling for more testing and more at-home testing for a year. what does a half billion rapid at-home tests being sent out mean if theyre delivered sometime in january? >> to me it represents forward momentum and forward motion from the administration to start taking testing as a public health tool in this pandemic seriously. i think 500 million tests spread out over a few months is not going to make a major dent, but if its just spread out over everyone in the u.s. my hope is the test...

That have killed millions of people worldwide. >> what theyve done is taken a protein and 24 different surfaces of that protein are similar to different aspects of the coronavirus so you are getting a lot of different levels of immunity not just to the spike protein. >> that vaccine is reportedly in phase one clinical trials. dana, back to you. >> dana: thank you, jonathan. have a good afternoon. senate majority leader chuck schumer tells colleagues he expects to vote on a revised version of bid...

Tell your little girl merry christmas. but for one i would say not only for testing but also the vaccination what we know is there is a disparity of school nurses. 1 in 5 of u.s. public schools do not have a school nurse. who is going to vaccinate those children? we have to think about this in a different way. the mobile vans that used to litter the streets in church parking lots and barber shops have largely disappeared. we have to go back to that, go back to what we looked like unfortunately a...

Tests were negative a few days later they have come down, tested positive in the case several people this weekend severe like flu symptoms. can omicron invade the rapid test can there be false positives or false negatives? >> the false negative is really what we see in the presymptomatic phase. that is before you have symptoms the rate of a false negative can be as low as 50%. so if you are very concerned you might been exposed to moving to test twice if using the rapid antigen test you buy at t...

Hutch this is bbc news. the headlines: the first death in the uk with the omicron variant of coronavirus is announced — as the booster programme is expanded to combat its spread. the idea that this is somehow a milder version of the virus, i think thats something we need to set on one side, and just recognise the sheer pace at which it accelerates through the population. home lateral flow test kits are currently unavailable on the uk government website — a day after the government changed it...

This is bbc news. the headlines: the first death in the uk with the omicron variant of coronavirus is announced — as queues of people wait to get booster jabs in england. the best thing we can do is get our boosters, we are opening up centres across the country and we are getting the army to help with logistics and we are expanding in every possible way. home lateral flow test kits are currently unavailable on the uk government website — a day after the government changed its testing strateg...

Home lateral flow test kits are currently unavailable on the uk government website — a day after the government changed its testing strategy. and well be putting all your questions on the omicron variant and the booster campaign to experts in your questions answered at 2.30. you can get in touch on twitter using the hashtag #bbcyourquestions, or e—mail at yourquestions@bbc.co.uk. from today, people in england are being asked to work from home if they can — but businesses are worried it wil...