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>> more testing is crucial and as you've just mentioned, schools, children returning today to keep them open and keep them safely open requires a lot more tests as well. mayor maria rivera, thank you for your time and for doing everything you are to keep your residents safe. >> thank you for the time. still ahead, snow now complicating the search in colorado for two people missing, after just a devastating fast-moving wildfire there while authorities are narrowing in on what started that fire. we'll go there live next. move to sofi and feel what it's like to get your money right. ♪ ♪ ♪...

Manufacturing capacity with states that need it. not only that, we're in the process within looking at our contracts to see if we have any additional capacity add commit to sending that capacity to school programs. >> senator burr. >> let me cut to the chase. dr. fauci, you said cdc was going to update its guidance and include antigen testing or suggested it would. dr. walensky and cdc came out with the guidance that didn't include it. was that part of the communications to plan to start with and they diverted or did you just choose to inject that? >> thank you for that question, senator burr....

Considerable diminution in the likelihood of being transmitted we have been in discussions about what the role of antigen testing would be. as a matter of fact, when dr. walensky came out with the final guidelines, they include that if you have a test available you may take a test. so at the end of the day we were quite in concordance with our views. >> well, i think the chair and i share this. we found it very confusing and i think the american people found it confusing and i don't say it lightly when i say not too many people in america are listening to what comes out of washington whether c...

Listening because i think the antigen tests are giving people a false sense of security. you're saying the pcr test is the most impactful and effective and accurate, correct? >> it is correct, but there is a place, a good place, a reasonable place and appropriate place for the antigen testing and i just described what that was. >> right. okay. so i have a lot of people who in my life who have recently been infected who tested positive for covid-19. how do they know if they have the delta variant, the omicron because all they know they tested positive. they aren't hospitalized. they're quaranti...

Vaccinated, it took a month for the dashboard to be updated. inefficient data systems. there could be six steps between the states and the feds to determine if something was -- somebody had actually died a covid death and to have that reported. and then just significant inconsistencies overall, jake. some examples. if a single individual came back positive several times, was that three separate positives or was that one positive? it sounds like a simple question, but states handled that sort of thing differently. states did not always parse out pcr versus and tigen testing. so we as reporters ...