information to states about the rockefeller foundation and what they re doing to set up contracts to assist districts in setting up surveillance systems. so again, we believe surveillance, good surveillance, testing system, vaccination efforts, and mitigation strategies are critical to successfully keeping our schools open. and you were just saying a moent ago that schools are requiring masks across the country. that s just not the case, though. there are a lot of places where they re not really requiring that sort of thing. unfortunately, we have seen where districts are not requiring that cases go up. we re seeing hospitalizations go up in those places. i think with this increase in omicron and higher cases, i hope those districts really take a look at their policies. i think parents have had enough of school closures due to poor policies, so let s protect our students, let s protect our staff. let s keep our communities
11th, so that is next tuesday. the uk health security agency has confirmed it will suspend the need for people with no symptoms of covid who test positive on rapid lateral flow tests to take a follow up pcr test to confirm the result. so just to confirm, this rule change applies to confirm, this rule change applies to england only at this stage, and it will take effect from january the 11th, that is next tuesday. the agency said it had previously suspended the requirement between january and march last year at a time of high virus prevalence, and it says it will review the requirement when the proportion of people with the virus in england drops to below 1% for a sustained period of time, so i think on reflection they re from health security agency of the pressure the testing system is under. but the headline as we have been reporting, it was expected that this change was going to happen, and indeed it has.
reporter: one year after taking office, president biden facing a stubborn problem he vowed to solve. long lines and empty shelves exposing a testing system failing once again to match demand. biden s own rhetoric. anyone who wants a test should be able to get one, period. reporter: biden came into office with a plan to expand testing. pouring billions of dollars to boost manufacturing and ramp up testing in schools and underserved communities. his top priority was vaccines, which kept most people out of the hospital and even slashed the chances of getting and spreading the virus. and then came omicron. the vaccines were really doing their job to decrease the number of cases. so there wasn t demand. but then because of the variants, we ve had this increase in cases and, therefore, increase in demand. reporter: biden has acknowledged coming up short on testing but resists calling it a failure. i don t think it s a failure. i think you could argue that we should have known a y
passports and working from home, will stay in place. in the commons, he was bullish about the strategy. this is the balanced and proportionate approach that we have taken to covid. we have been able to keep this country open, keep our economy improving, more open than any other comparable economy in europe, and they know it, mr speaker. europe, and they know it, mr seaker. ~ . , , , speaker. with a huge rise in cases, the testin: speaker. with a huge rise in cases, the testing system speaker. with a huge rise in cases, the testing system has speaker. with a huge rise in cases, the testing system has been under| the testing system has been under strain, so today a change in england and wales. if you don t have covid symptoms, and your lateral flow test is positive, you will still have to isolate but won t have to confirm the result with a pcr. staff shortages remain a major problem. hospitals and other sectors, services are being cancelled or delayed because so many are in isolation
maybe she thought no one was listening or sirius xm rather and said president trump didn t leave us a plan. it was a little noticed clip. i noticed it because number one, president biden said president trump does not have a plan being, i do. so regardless of who left you a plan, you guys purported to have a plan. but, number two, yeah, we left you a plan in the trump administration. it was called this. it was called 800,000 vaccination vaccine doses secured based on contracts with private companies. it s called the most advanced testing system in the world where we were beating every other country with the abbott test, the rapid test that was approved right before president trump left office. we left you a plan john pierre maybe you didn t notice this you claimed to have a better plan neither of which was true. we left you a plan. you never had one. shame on you president biden and your minions out saying the opposite. lawrence: he had a plan it didn t work. instead of admitting to