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Vacation holiday weekend, that there is 200,000 test kits coming to massachusetts. we got the news just last night that they're going to be delayed. so what we're calling for now is using monday to get those tests distributed to educators, keep thes closed, make it a day for testing, so that the school district could analyze the results and make decisions about school opening or contingency plans according to what the science of the testing is telling them. >> so have you heard just anecdotally from fellow teachers, have there been a lot that tested or don't feel well. >> we have part of the c...

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...

Just trying to get tested as they prepare to spend the holidays with family and friends. and the president acknowledging his administration is struggling to meet the growing demand, but he is denying that it dropped the ball. >> no, i don't think it's a failure. i think it's a -- you could argue we should have known a year ago, six months ago, two months ago, a month ago. i have ordered half a billion of the pills. 500 million pills. 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 the answer is, yeah, i wish i had t...

This country's testing capacity. the white house is once again scrambling with its strategy and messaging. >> we're nearly two years into this pandemic, you're a year into the presidency. empty shelves and no test kits in some places three days before christmas when it's so important. is that good enough? >> no, nothing has been good enough. >> i know you'll get together with the children and the grandchildren for the holiday. how will that work? will you all rapid test before you're together? >> yes. i'm doing it almost every day. >> is your hope that for the millions of americans trying to g...

U.s. regulators have authorized two new at-home test kits made by rush and siemens. protection from the pfizer vaccine is reduced against omicron, but is restored by a booster. one of the studies provides real-life data that two doses still protect people from severe illness and death even without a booster. the cdc director says 12 to 15-year-olds could be approved for boosters in the next few days or weeks, but vaccines for children under 5 will take longer. the number of children admitted to hospitals in the u.s. is rising rapidly or steadily, ra rather. a study shows 334 admissions per d...