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Or not fully vaccinated children and children under 5 who cannot be vaccinated. so, you know, the measures that we should be taking because, frankly, our schools should be the last to close and the first to open, we all need to behave in a way that will keep us safe and keep our children safe and need to get everybody vaccinated and with good ventilation and masking we'll minimize the spread. there's that one other thing, fredricka, which is rapid testing. if we had abundant rapid testing we could test every child every day and guarantee that schools are safe. >> in fact, you wrote in "the was...

Being see kraoetd? neither the antigen or pcr tests tell you that. the degree to which you are infectious. they found there is not a great correlation. especially for people who are vaccinated. if you are vaccinated, you will shed far less virus for far shorter period of time. that was the problem with the study. i like the cdc guidelines initially, which if you're covid positive or symptomatic, quarantine yourself until you're not symptomatic anymore, and then mask. the testing, especially the pcr testing, can be misleading. >> dr. paul offit, thank you for your expertise and being here today...

Million tests next month according to a memo obtained by cnn. >> we are not going to stop there. those numbers will keep going up in the months ahead. >> reporter: and, erin, the white house is also finalizing plans for those 500 million rapid at-home tests they plan to send to every american who requests one. the first of those tests are expected to go out later-this month. the rest of them will go out in the next 60 days but experts are saying that while this is a good sign in the right direction, it's still going to take months to get testing where it needs to be in this country. erin? >> m...

Taking office, president biden facing a stubborn problem he vowed to solve -- long lines and empty shelves, exposing a testing system failing, once again, to match demand. and biden's own rhetoric. >> anyone who wants a test should be able to get one, period. >> biden came into office with a plan to expand testing. pouring billions of dollars to boost manufacturing and ramp up testing in schools and underserved communities. but his top priority was vaccines, which kept most people out of the hospital and even slashed the chances of getting and spreading the virus. and then, came omicron. >> th...

Washington, d.c., are ahead of the curve, but not by much. and so expect that in the next three or four weeks we're going to see everyone hit with this. >> reporter: new jersey identified more than 28,000 new covid-19 cases via pcr testing, governor phil murphy said on thursday. the number of positive cases likely higher due to at-home testing, he added. some governors calling on the national guard. ohio governor mike dewine deploying troops. georgia also deployed 200 troops in the same week that major health systems saw 100% to 200% increase in hospitalizations. new york doubling its national...