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Combining to create this situation. it doesn't help us that we have a shortage of good clear communication coming from the administration when it comes to how to manage omicron right now. we're losing too many people because of quarantining issues what happens with asymptomatic people. we don't have the clear communication we need to keep people on the front lines when they're healthy enough to do so. >> the fold has been i better stay home. when a truck driver says that or someone in your industry says that, maybe a family won't get the meal that they go to the supermarket searching for. you ...

Challenges on employer vaccine mandates and additional strains on a depleted work force factored into their decision. the cdc is recommending people stay up to date and dealing fully vaxed status as the primary round of two shots. meantime lawmakers on capitol hill are gauging the need and the willingness to pass another covid relief package. the white house says they're in constant communication with congressional leadership. >> neil: thanks, jacqui. what is confusing, the testing requirement and how long it goes and if you're diagnosed with omicron, just how long you should be quarantining o...

Results for weeks and weeks so you will be quarantining for weeks and weeks. does that mean the test we have are not doing much good? >> number one you have to distinguish between the pcr test as theover the counter test. i have concerns of how accurate theover the counter test is picking up infections and we are missing them and people are making decisions about do i go to family events where people at high risk when i tested negative but really i am positive. that's the first thing. the pcr is a definitive test and we can get that. that can be positive for sometimes basically weeks after inf...

To 12 days. that means households should receive these test kits at the end of the month or early next month. strategically, if you think about the tools that we have had to contend with this pandemic as a nation, a lot of things have been within our grasp, whether or not to get vaccinated, to get boosted, to follow the appropriate public health guidance on social distancing and masking and quarantining and all of those things. but for the first time, this should wholesale across the country put this matter of testing in all of our own hands, privately at home under our own steed. and in a way...

Now. what is the plan there to keep schools open? >> they're very clear here in l.a.usd that they will be keeping schools open, alisyn and victor, kids coming back today after the winter break taking that extra day to make sure they have plenty of time to do this mandatory testing for students to come here, and that testing of students and of staff and teachers finding more than 65,000 positive cases. so those people aren't here, but they said if there's people that are going to be out, that they are going to have plenty of certified teachers who can step in for teachers who may be out quarant...