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Hi, everybody. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 pacific. i'm yasmin vassoughian in for jose diaz-balart. we have a lot to get to this morning, including the big news from the cdc. new guidelines for those two test positive for covid are exposed to the virus. here is what you need to know. those who test positive but have no symptoms should isolate for five days instead of ten and wear a mask for five days. the new guidelines apply to everybody, including the unvaccinated. the quarantine time for someone exposed to someone with covid has also been cut. those boosted or vaccinated within six month...

Just a week before the australian open begins, a judge will now decide whether the nine—time champion will be able to defend his title. shaimaa khalil, bbc news, melbourne. here in the uk, the education secretary has said shortening the isolation period in england, for people who test positive for coronavirus, would be helpful in dealing with staffing shortages. nadhim zahawi said, any decision would be made on the basis of advice from the uk's health security agency — and said absences among teachers would rise now that schools had returned. the us recently shortened isolation for those t...

Going to medical school and practiced at this profession for so long, to have someone come in telling him they read something on the internet that could help them. it's baffling. let's talk about what's going on on the ground right now. hospitalizations of covid-19 up 35% from last week. that's not as high as the cases from omicron, but it's still taxing, i would think. what's it like in hospitals in michigan, and what are your biggest concerns and challenges right now? >> i tell you, we are still deeply mired in a delta surge. the case numbers themselves and the positive rates are trending do...

U.s. covid cases has left school officials facing staffing shortages and dealing with concerns about whether in-person learning is safe. cnn's nadia romero looks at how cities and states are reacting from coast to coast. >> well, here in the state of georgia, the governor releasing new guidelines, slashing restrictions for teachers who test positive for covid-19, even if they're infected with the virus, as long as they're asymptomatic, they can go back to the classroom to teach as long as they wear a mask. the governor is leaving those guidelines up to each district to decide what they think i...

As they have a negative test at the end of that seven days. but they said if the hospital puts themselves in a contingency plan, if the hospital says, wow, we are short and we are really getting overrun with patients, actually that can be shortened to five days and you don't need a test at the end of it. if it's a crisis situation, again, it's the hospital that gets to decide that, if it's a crisis situation, there's no restrictions. the hospital can decide if they're going to be doing any isolation of health care workers who test positive for covid-19. poppy, it will be interesting to see, th...