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Because they can t field a team because many of their players have covid-19. and there is frustration over all of this, a lot of frustration both people here in this testing line in southeast d.c., this line stretches back as far as i can see down the street. and also frustration over the amount of testing or lack thereof that people think is available here in the city. pcr tests are increasing and the availability at locations of the pcr tests is increasing. and so is the rapid testing. but mayor bowser says that she s ordered a million rapid tests but they won t be here until january at the earliest. so mike, let s talk about that. any update on when in january those free at-home tests will be available? is the administration giving anymore details about how we ll roll them out, what the time line looks like? reporter: yeah, the short answer is no. we had that announcement from the president last week. ....
But firs, shaq brewster is joining us from a hospital where military personnel are on site. i understand that 20 person team from the navy was dispatched there over the holiday weekend. how are they helping and what else do indiana hospitals need right now? reporter: these are medical professionals that are essentially embedding with the doctors here at this hospital. we re talking about doctors, nurses, respiratory therapists all going in, helping them in the surge right now. and i want you to listen to what a doctor is telling me about what they are experiencing inside the hospital. listen here. we re up pure patient numbers, we re up over 120%, 130% across our hospitals. so the pure patient number burden is higher than ever. in addition to that, we have about 400 team members quarantined or either have covid or quarantined from exposures across the community. so them coming in and being able to partner, take care of that many more patients is a big ....
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The cdc shortening the recommended quarantine time for people who test positive for covid but are asymptomatic. a killing spree in the denver area kills four people, police are searching for a motive. plus moments from now, officials in richmond, virginia will be opening a time capsule discovered yesterday under a statue of robert e. lee believed to be buried more than 130 years ago. but we begin with those new cdc guidelines which cut in half the recommended covid-19 isolation time. people who test positive but have no symptoms should now quarantine for five days, not ten, citing evidence that it is most transmissible two to three days after symptoms first surface. dr. fauci defending the change. if you look at the chance of getting a transmission in that second half of that ten day period, it is considerably less than in those first few days. so on balance, if you look at the safety of the public and the ....