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Symptoms. the agency still does not require a negative covid test at the end of that period but updated guidance yesterday to say quote if an individual has access to a test and wants to test, the best approach is to use an antigen test towards the end of the five-day isolation period. one former cdc director weighed in on that. >> the goal here was to try to create guidance that was workable, that was signens based. when you put in the option saying but if you have a test kit and you want to test at five days and you are positive you should continue for 10, that makes it pretty confusing. >> ...

Requirement after a -- is because the science says that the odds of being contagious after those five days are low. dr. walensky has given a few additional reasons. she said a couple times today that a pcr test could give someone who had a covid positive result for up to 12 weeks. is a pcr test not a good barometer either for transmissibility and isolation length? how can people actually tell if they are contagious in the cycle of having covid? how do you measure that, if not either with a pcr test or antigen test? >> that is a very good question. a pcr doesn't measure replication competent vi...

Asymptomatic, we are very unlikely to be infectious after about five to seven days. in an ideal world, we would also have a rapid antigen test that is negative. those tests that no one can get. we would have a negative rapid antigen test after that period to prove we're not infectious before we go back out into the world. that part for the vaccinated does make sense. the trouble is for the unvaccinated, the data doesn't really back up that they become noninfectious in five days and the cdc said everyone should mask up out in public for another five tdays. we know what happened in may when they...

Emergency department next week and i can't do that if she's not in school during that time, so it's critical that we try to do everything we can to keep people out of the emergency room and keep our kids in classrooms, and i want to make sure that we make the right decisions right now to do that. >> and you heard what mayor elect adams said about his plan for schools and i know you think we should be doing everything to keep kids in schools. you were just saying a few moments ago. do you thing the plan in new york is enough? for example, here in washington, they're requiring students to have n...

Ending isolation at day five should include a negative antigen test, why do all the work to identify infections if we are going to just let them go back to work while still potentially infectious. as so many schools struggle to stay open, virginia's new governor will ban school mask mandates. a few districts say they will defy him. >> we will use every resource within the governor's authority to explore what we can do and will do in order to make sure that parents' rights are protected. >> reporter: and we heard this morning that general mark milley, the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff h...