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They're maximum infectious. >> reporter: still, the new guidance is drawing fierce debate among health experts. >> there is absolutely no data that i'm aware about with the omicron that puts people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with the virus. >> you either shutdown 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 neve...

Weeks. a hospital in chicago reports a fourfold rise. it doesn't appear the omicron variant is more dangerous for children, but it is highly transmissible. and holiday gathers could further fuel the surge in cases, including among children. >> i would say we have not seen the worst of it yet. >> reporter: with cases climbing, staffing shortages are still crippling industries. airlines canceling thousands of flights this holiday season. maryland's federal courts scaling back operations. team usa hockey forced to forfeit the tournament. the cdc latest guidance puts people back to work more quick...

Forfeit the world juniors tournament. the cdc's latest guidance aims to put people back to work more quickly but the recommendation to isolate for five days, instead of ten if infected but not symptomatic comes, also, with criticism. >> trouble is for the unvaccinated, the data doesn't really back up that they become noninfectious at five days. >> reporter: testing lines across the country are still intolerably long in too many places and frustration is mounting over failures to make more at-home tests available more quickly. >> i hope we fix it in january and february. but we're going to have...

>> when it comes to tolerance, a look at the long testing lines, it seems to be in short supply. >> it's crazy. i've been turned away from urgent care places, appointments have been cancelled for testing. now's been in line so i'm hoping this works so i can get back to work. >> the mid-atlantic area is getting hit especially hard by covid. new cases in washington d.c. up 120% in one week. trace? >> steve harrigan live for us in atlanta. thank you. here's the former cdc epidemiologist. thanks for being here. you heard steve harrigan saying a lot of people are pushing back. they said negative te...

Drizzly says 17% of wine delivered in december is actually champagne. it's kind of surprising. all right. turning back now to covid, it was considered just unthinkable a few months ago. the u.s. shattering its record for average daily covid cases more than doubling in two weeks alone. this is thanks to a combination of both omicron and delta, which the cdc now says hasn't fallen into the background as much as first thought. >> now the fda says at-home coronavirus tests may be less sensitive to picking up the omicron variant. that could send more people into those long testing lines, which co...