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Recommendation then and once the director signs off on it, things are going to move very quickly. we could see the first boosters given out as early as thursday. david? >> and trevor ault in front of one of those very long testing lines in new york city tonight. trevor, thank you. we know you have questions at home. let's bring in dr. ashish jha. happy new year, great to have you with us, as always. unfortunate we still talk about the challenges of this pandemic, but we will get there. i want to get to what we heard from dr. fauci a moment ago. this isolation, five days if you've tested posi...

And i want to talk more about covid testing because the lines we are seeing across the country are still really bad. here is the issue, this was a huge issue before the vaccine and it remains a problem now. this is a video of the testing lines just this morning in massachusetts, but the big thing is it did not have to be this way. a harvard trained scientist created an inexpensive rapid test at the start of the pandemic with the capacity to produce at least 100,000 tests every single week and they were priced at less than 10 bucks apiece but the fda said no. i want to find out why. lydia digs ...

Through the storm. we spent so much time wallowing in the moment of the storm. we are fighting from a place of victory. we would get through this just as we got through the great depression on pearl harbor and 9/11. you go through the list. if you see yourself through the storm, you will be fine. i have lived through a lot of tragedies but i won't wallow in that place, i know there is something on the other side of covid, we'll be better and prepared as the future in front of us. i am going to lead the city through this. we'll be fine. >> questions for you, you certainly vow to keep schools op...

Variant. we'll dig into that in moments. also in a few hours, president biden is scheduled to have that high stakes phone call with vladimir putin. at the center of it all, the tens of thousands of russian troops gathering for weeks on the ukrainian border. plus breaking on the economy. new weekly jobless claims are in and are lower than expected. 198,000 people filing for first-time unemployment benefits last week. and we'll start this hour with jake ward in san francisco. gary grumbeck in washington d.c. and a physician and fellow at the brookings institution. we also have dr. ere win redl...

>> there is absolutely no data that i am aware about with the omicron variant that supports people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with -- with the virus. >> you either shut down the -- the society, which no one wants to do. or you try and get a situation where you can safely get people back, particularly to critical jobs, without having them be out for a full-ten days. >> reporter: long testing lines are still snaking across the country. new cases are skyrocketing to numbers never seen, before. deaths and hospitalizations, key indicators at this moment, are a...