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Contributor and dr. blackstock just as we were getting this news from the federal government here about schools and more testing, it does seem as if everybody is starting to choose their own adventure on the state level. the main department of education changed something here with contact tracing and i'm curious what you think. conducting contact tracing in a timely and thorough manner is becoming increasingly difficult if not impossible for school personnel given the fast spread of the omicron variant and the advised standard that the state put in and permits schools with universal masking po...

We don't have enough resources to do it. what do you make of this decision? >> right, chuck. they have no other choice. they have been forced into this position. we have very high transmission levels of this virus and it's true. contact tracing is an effective strategy containing the virus. but only up to a certain point. when you have levels as high as the current levels of omicron transmission it basically is ineffective combine would the fact that we have inspected staff and public health workers. i think what we're seeing in maine is likely going to happen, unfortunately, in other states. ...

Is probably inevitable here and, you know, it will be maybe luck whether it's a worse variant or a better variant. what do we need to do to prepare for a summer variant if we think this is going to become seasonal? >> chuck, that's such a great question and definitely another variant is around the corner because we have such high levels of transmission and that's when variants emerge. the more people that they infect, the more often they replicate and more often mutations happen. i think omicron is almost a gift to us. a gift because while it's more transmissible, it's not more virulent but th...

New details to send 10 million covid-19 tests to k-12 schools nationwide every month. both rapid antigen and pcr test will be supplied and overseeing that effort and the entire federal government's testing program is the newly named senior adviser to the white house covid response team somebody quite familiar to us in 2020. the hypercontagious omicron variant pushes schools and hospitals to the brink. data shows almost 5,400 schools had to cancel some form of in-person learning last week. and nationwide more than 150,000 covid patients are currently hospitalized, that means one in five hospita...