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Heinrich has that story tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. its a new were for the biden administration many of last years challenges persist especially related to bringing down covid cases and ramping up testing. unclear whether president biden thinks the revised cdc quarantine guidance should have included a testing component. >> i will be talking to you about that later. >> after two top public health officials made conflicting statements about whether it...

Learning. chicago and boston staying with in-person learning, with massachusetts distributing more than 227,000 rapid tests to staff. and here in new york city tonight, the largest school system in the country, they were open today, handing out masks and ramping up testing. dr. ashish jha standing by to answer your questions. but were going to begin tonight with abcs trevor ault, leading us off right here in new york. >> reporter tonight, millions of students starting the new year back in the cl...

Booster mandates, delayed campus move-ins, ramped up testing, and pivots back to remote learning these changes adding to confusion. last semester, about 50% of students went to colleges with some type of vaccine mandate but only half of the students surveyed knew their schools covid safety policies. the number of colleges with covid safety measures is already rising ucla, duke, and emory are returning to virtual learning, at least for the start of the semester the university of illinois, urbana-...

Part of his presidency, he has basically failed on his own terms in terms of promising to shut down the virus, have us back to normal by summer, ramped up testing, et cetera, et cetera. i do think, to your point, this is maybe the of wisdom in washington where politicians are acknowledging that the urge to lock down and to restrict and mandate and order does not necessarily kill the virus, and may do a lot of harm, as weve seen. im hoping this is a realization that there are trade-offs, and mayb...

Numbers we have not seen in a year. but my next guest, dr. adjad says cases are no longer the major metric. first, to steve harrigan with the very latest on this. steve? >> trace, president biden meeting with the white house covid response team along with a number of governors. the president saying the omicron variant was cause for concern but he said its not a cause for panic. he also said that the federal government needs to do more when it comes to ramping up testing. >> the lines have gotten...

In, the rise in cases we are seeing mostly among those people who are unvaccinated. in terms of hospitalizations, those numbers ticking up as well. but theyre not seeing substantial rising in those hospital numbers compared to what weve seen in the past, that according to health officials. so thats important to keep in perspective as well. meanwhile, kate, when you look across the city, weve seen a number of people waiting in long lines, sometimes for hours trying to get a test ahead of the holi...

>> as the omicron variant is detected in more u.s. states, new travel rules set to take effect monday. >> we really dont want to ban people in countries. we want to keep cases out. and so buffing up testing and having testing done before travel and then again after travel makes a lot of sense. the latest u.s. intel weve just heard, just reported saying there could be up to 175,000 russian troops there put in place for any plan to invade ukraine. >> i dont know what theyre going to do, but im v...

Right now were allowing residents and citizens to return which we should but we should have mandatory quarantining and testing otherwise there are too many loopholes and were not obtaining our goal, which is to contain omicron. we should be doing other things, too, including encouraging boosters but ramping up testing and imploemting indoor mask mandates too. we do know president biden will be providing an update to the united states tomorrow. dr. lena wen, thank you for joining us tonight. >>...

Imagine if every child and teacher were tested every morning, and also theyre vaccinated, you can imagine that situation, even if there is high levels of community spread that maybe you can remove masks at that time. but we are nowhere near that yet and i think what we really need to do is get the vaccines, authorized for children as soon as that is possible and also really ramp up testing. because that is a powerful tool that we are just not using across the country as we should be. >> yeah, it...

What _ really upbeat, looking forward to what is _ really upbeat, looking forward to what is happening, seeing the students — what is happening, seeing the students again and the students we had through because we tested last week on— had through because we tested last week on friday for years seven and 11, week on friday for years seven and 11. today— week on friday for years seven and 11. today is— week on friday for years seven and 11, today is the second test. the mood _ 11, today is...