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Country. we continue to work with our states and district leaders to find ways to set up systems use ing resources in the community which i think worked best to keep our children in the classroom. >> you mentioned the new test to stay policy that the administration announced recently. basically instead of forcing unvaccinated students to quarantine, they could stay in class if they test negative at least twice during the week if i remember correctly. given how fast weve seen this new variant spr...

Thinking if you should get your COVID-19 booster shot? According to researchers, the Omicron variant might be less severe, but it multiplies roughly 70 times faster than Delta. Even worse, it can partially escape immunity from vaccines!

They are variables. those variables are ignored in the reporting, im going to quote, scott adams its been a while. his theory of -- single -- its single variable thinking. so if you read the headlines right now. first case in the u.s. track the variant spread. first case appears in california. so now its going to be tracked state by state. so what theyre doing, if you google this, the first case, you will get thousands of hits. they are all identical. they are cbs or npr or cnn, they have one th...

Union and other countries in restricting travel from certain southern african nations. a move health experts say may slow down the variant spread but wont stop it. >> when you have a virus that has already gone to multiple countries inevitably, it will be here. >> reporter: u.s. federal health officials are bracing for omicron to be detected here with the cdc sequencing coronavirus genomes and, working closely with state health officials. but it wont be clear for a few weeks how transmissible om...

>> reporter: omicron has at least 50 mutations, including some shared with the highly contagious delta variant that drove a deadly summer surge in the united states. the new variant has become the most dominant strain in south africa less than two weeks after if was first detected. the strain now confirmed on five continents in more than a dozen countries, including canada. the u.s. joining the european union and other countries in restricting travel from certain southern african nations. a move...

Friday, a dismal day. the dow had its worse session of 2021. it fell more than 900 points at the close as news of this variant spread. maria bartiromo, anchor of "mornings with maria" on fox business. good toerng to you. -- good morning. why dont we begin, what do you see? >> it looks like well get a bounceback at the opening of trading. i can tell you for sure many people feel that fridays action was a way, way overreaction. remember friday the day after thanksgiving is typically low volume, lo...

Much of europe and in canada. no reported cases yet in the u.s. sandra, back to you. >> sandra: steve harrigan from cdc headquarters in atlanta, thank you. john? >> john: president bidens travel ban on eight african nations went into effect today to help slow the variant spread. but critics say it is too little, too late since they are already confirmed cases, as steve was mentioning, in europe, asia, canada, and beyond. senator tom cotton says the ban is worse than useless since it didnt go int...

Milder in large measure, that are occurring among people who have been previously vaccinated, all the more important to get those boosters. >> were hearing about the w.h.o. calling a meeting to discuss the delta variant coming out of south africa. how worried are you about more mutations? >> well, mutations are occurring all the time. so surveillance is ongoing around the globe. and the three criteria that were concerned about is does any new variant spread even faster than delta? hard to imagin...

Without a vaccine approved for kids under 12, what more can we parents do to protect our kids? >> the cdc has laid out and the american academy of pediatrics has layed out five lines that -- guidelines that probably should work. of course were dealing with a very different variant. the delta variant has spread a lot faster than the original variant spread. theyve promoted this layered mitigation. its not just about vaccine, although any eligible child and all staff members as well as all adults ...

Desk. one on infrastructure and one on reconciliation. thank you. >> turning to the delta variant for a moment. i want to see do you think the administration has enough mitigation measures in place early enough and should have heeded some of the lessons if other countries that had data as early as may and june about how the variant spread? >> we knew how the variant spread and we know the vaccines prevent the spread. a lot of countries didnt have the vaccines we were able to put together and mak...