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Authorized a pfizer booster for children aged 12 to 15, at least five months after completing their initial vaccination. children ages 5 to 11 with compromised immune systems could be eligible for third doses. the cdc is expected to sign off on the changes wednesday. while schools facing the highly contagious but apparently less severe omicron variant are instituting a patchwork of policies to get kids back into classrooms safely. cleveland and atlanta schools are remote for the week other places delayed a return to class so children could be tested in new york city, school doors swung open th...

Understand that. so we want to be tested. >> you know, we showed those long lines that you just referenced there in brockton. you told local media that demand is skyrocketing. your clinic has a two-week wait for people to get an appointment to get tested. and you know, it wasn't that long ago tests were available in a day or two. and you got the results back pretty quickly. how do you get those wait times down again? i mean, is it more staff? is it more test kits? what do you need? >> well, you know, a lot of it is about three main things. right? these come down to people, process and infrastr...

A year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. i've ordered half a billion of the pills. 500 million pills. i mean, excuse me, 500 million test kits that are going to be available to be sent to every home in america if anybody wants them. but um, the answer is yeah, i wish i had thought about ordering a half a billion pills two months ago, before covid hit here. >> i am joined now by two men who advised the two most recent democratic presidents, david axelrod, former senior adviser to president obama and cnn senior political commentator. and andy slavitt, a former senior adviser to p...

Hours in line trying to get testing. when it comes to trying to go into a drug store, getting at-home tests and finding out oftentimes they are sold out. just a while ago the new york city mayor weighed in on this issue. he was asked about it and asked what the city is trying to do to meet need of all of the people who are trying to get tested. >> we are now testing in fact more people than ever. 130,000 plus daily in the city sites. that's double the number of tests just three weeks ago. that's how fast things are ramping up. this intense effort will keep growing as long as we need it to grow...

That have to report positive tests are way behind because of the holidays, and so those case numbers are artificially low inherently. we have well more than a million cases, but what we really need to look at and the sort of weak link in the system at the moment as your reporters have pointed out, is the health care system. we look at hospitalizations, hospitalizations where people are requiring oxygen for covid, that's a much more important measure, and again, as your reporters have pointed out, 3/4 or more of the patients in the hospital with covid are patients who are unvaccinated. and as y...