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To to start us off this hour to. begin we start with our senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen. let's go through what the cdc is doing here for health care workers. what are the new guidelines? >> pope, it's really interesting because large lit cdc is leaving its individual hospitals to decide what they are going to do with their health care workers who have omicron but who are either asymptomatic or mildly symptomatic. everyone wants those folks working if they can be working so let's take a look at what the cdc has done. the cdc says the health care worker is asymptomatic or just a bi...

Immune compromised, for example, kasper patients, they might not have worked very well for you so the government is trying to come up with solutions, but some people are saying they missed the boat but should have come up with conclusions months and months okay. >> be proobjective and not reactive. joining me now is a public health specialist based in atlanta. good to have you. let's start there in atlanta where the cdc is as well. so they changed these rules for health care workers to try to get more people back to work sooper. what is your take on that and also i wonder if you think it shoul...

And this kidney dialysis patient and when she tested her antibodies she didn't have detectable levels and this cancer patient the same situation. candy johnson, a transplant kidney patient same situation. they are now able to get the-and-bodies that they couldn't get from the vaccine. there's 7 million immune compromised people in the united states according to the cdc and the u.s. government ordered 700,000 doses so those first doses are coming in. a hospital, for example, in massachusetts saying we expect to get enough in this first shipment for 1% of our patients who could use this drug. po...

Unlike last year we have tools to gather safely this year, but hardships remain. there are struggles to find tests and testing. u.s. cases just spiked 48% from last week and right now new infections are topping the wave we saw from delta. hospitalizations are also up. the cdc is taking action before the winter wave now shortening a time that health care workers have to test after testing positive. airlines today pushing for that same guidance and staffing shortages are grounding hundreds of christmas eve flights. people are stranded and mask mandates are still in place and the fatigue is real ...

This a little bit at the town hall. he said he believed the cdc will lightly suggest and ask kids ineligible for the vaccine to wear masks just in a week's time before classes resume. the issue is they would like to get the vaccine use available for emergency ought san diego for kids 5 through 12. we're talking halfway through the school year when some of those kids will be eligible. the thing is a lot of these schools and localities are not waiting to make these decisions. they're saying, we're going to decide for ourselves. you saw atlanta schools and others throughout the country say, we do...