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Raging, a national shortage of test kits led to hours long waits at testing sites. rising cases led to massive workforce shortages and airline cancellations. businesses, including delta airlines on december 21st, called for shortening the recommended isolation period for the vaccinated who test positive six days later the cdc did just that, cutting the isolation time from 10 to 5 days. cdc director walensky said she was worried people would not stay home. >> people would feel well enough to be at work they would not necessarily tolerate being home and that they may not comply with being home. ...

Determined. arthel: meanwhile starting wednesday you can order up to four at home tests online at covid test.gov. they do not ship out until seven -- 12 days after you've ordered them not time but these tests, is it true some tests do not detect omicron until after you've already been contagious and possibly spreading the virus? >> is a variety of different kind of testers a pcr test which is most sensitive going to likely detected very, very early on but it takes a while to get those results i can take several days that's not very helpful to people when it's going to be available through this...

Available so in some ways this is a form of triage. let me show you the guidelines just to be clear what they are now telling people who are testing positive for covid. stay -- stay home for at least five days. your isolation can end if symptoms are gone or resolving. wear a mask around others for five more days but the new things they added to that, again, as you mentioned. optional antigen test around day five and if positive, isolate for -- for a full-ten days. that -- that -- it may not be disincentivizing testing but it's not really incentivizing it, either, um, which i think is an issue ...

Could test positive even for weeks after. but the antigen test, the rapid at-home antigen test, usually that's a pretty good test for infectivity. so are you infectious at this point in time? so a lot of people could clear the virus after five or six days. what the uk has done, for example, is to say if you test negative twice on two consecutive days, you could end your isolation at seven days. that's the kind of policy that actually would have made more sense here in the u.s. too. >> so president biden was out today encouraging vaccinated americans to be concerned but not to be alarmed about ...

Positive on a pcr test and negative on an antigen test? yes. the reason being the antigen test is more likely to be contagious with a virus in your nose and mouth? it depends on the question you are asking. if the question is, do i have a virus at all in my body? pcr test is the one for you? if the question is, am i contagious? then the antigen test. it's a little newspapersed point, kate, i think it's good if you can understand that. >> nuance, it's good for everyone. good to see you, thank you so much. let's turn to this, for the second day in a row, the nation's third largest public schoo...