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The at-home antigen test kits are sold in a number of shops and pharmacies in Ireland.

Residents? >> central falls is a unique city with the hardest hit community, the highest rate of hospitalizations in the state of rhode island and that happens for different reasons. we have a housing crisis in central falls, we couldn't tell our residents to isolate because i have two and three families living in one apartment so when i tell one person, it's very hard for them to isolate and for the rest of the people in the department to not get impacted by covid. we are facing the rest of the challenge which is why i'm ensuring we're focused on the city of central falls to have the hospital...

Top of the next hour we'll speak to the head of the new york teachers union who asked the mayor to go remote. the mayor refused. we'll press on the issues. the cdc is expected to clarify its isolation guidance for fully vaccinated people who test positive for covid but are asymptomatic. >> there has been some concern about why we don't ask people at the five-day period to get tested. that is something that is under organization. there may be an option in that, that testing could be a part of that, and i think we'll be hearing more about that in the next day or so from the cdc. >> senior medi...

Rapid testing to send home with staff and students who may have been exposed so they can do that testing and they'll be required to test again five days later, this is part of that program we're hearing about around the country about testing to keep children in school. they encouraged students to be tested before returning but that wasn't a requirement. there are concerns about staffing as you pointed out. the president of the teachers union here actually sent a letter to the mayor yesterday advising that they return to remote learning on a temporary basis over concerns about staffing. the may...

Probably after five, six days you may be totally fine and ready to go back to your usual life, if you have no symptoms or mild symptoms, if you have no fever, feeling okay. the problem with that in testing is that some of the testing for example rapid antigen testing is positive by day five and six. maybe by day seven turn negative. if you wait until day seven you're pretty much done at the day seven level, that's they said initially not five but seven days. five days for testing you're pretty much looking at seven days. >> dr. del rio, let's talk big picture about omicron. the data increasing...