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With the negative test you should be able to gather around other people again. the same is true for colds, the flu. you don't want to be around people with symptoms. here is the problem that i have, mike. why is it just talking about health care workers? why is it just talking about whatever they deem to be an essential worker? what about everyone else? what about children who have, maybe have the sniffles for 24, 48 hours? they could have a rapid test negative couple days after that but they're still having to be kept out of school seven to 10 days t makes no sense. if you're following the sc...

Because they don't have enough tests. but now they're say federal gove governmenting if you get your hands on a test and test positive, you have to extend your isolation, so essentially, they are making it a dise disincentive to get tested. i think it makes sense for them to say if you're an essential worker, you have to go back to work and you're able to mask while at work, you can do so but with a mask. don't go to restaurants and other settings where you can't wear a mask because you can still be infectious. i think they can make it a lot easier. as it is now, i think a lot of businesses, u...

We essentially changed recommendations based on a sub set of about 250 people. that's not enough to make generallizations for millions in this country. i also know that there have been comments from dr. auchy to come to a halt. we want peel could get back to work and if that's it -- that just leads to further staffing shortages don't the road so if we have way if you're doing it out of necessities or trow public. >> my neighbor athe street says i'm an essential worker and wants possible back in the classroom. there's a jim of students locking at remote. when you look at where were as a

Put out some sort of an update or something to kind of clarify what they said last week, what they said last week a lot of people took issue with it because you can get out of isolation without testing. let's take a look at what they put up last week. last week they said if you have covid but you're asymptomatic or your symptoms are getting better you need to go into isolation for five days starting after that positive test and then after that you need to wear a mask for five days and you don't need to take a test to get out of isolation. so we expect to hear about that test. also it will be i...

Here is an interesting question and there seems to be a possibility of movement on this, and that is the number of days you need to isolate if you test positive in the u.s. the uk announced beginning today they're cutting the self-isolation period for vaccinated people from ten days to seven days. the idea being they don't want a shortage of workers as people stay at home if they test positive. cnn chief medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. elizabeth, dr. fauci raised this possibility for health care workers on cnn's air yesterday. is this something the u.s. is considering more ...