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Biden's tightened rules for all incoming travelers into the u.s. beginning today, and in new york city, a sweeping vaccine mandate for all in-person employees of about 184,000 private businesses with no weekly testing option. while upping the vaccine requirement to two doses for everyone 12 and older and adding kids five and older for indoor restaurants and entertainment venues. let's bring in dr. vin gupta. we'll get to omicron in a second. l get to omicron in a second the daily picture is still pretty ominous. cases are up 19%. the seven-day average is about 104,000 new cases a day. hospital...

Problem. but the testing option is so reasonable. so he voted with us on that. look, joe is a good friend. we've done a lot of work together. and you know him well, too, he can be a tough negotiator. at the end of the day it's usually not joe standing in the way of something or voting against something. i just remember whether it was impeachment votes or aca repeal. at the end of the day when it's crunch time, joe is a guy i've always counted on and he's never surprised me yet, he's a tough negotiator. you have 50 dems, but for us this won't happening. we're negotiating publicly or privately. ...

Putting back on the wards. we can't make that worse. but i would like to see it much broader. needs to be a testing option. you need to acknowledge that these vaccines wane, so boosting should be encouraged and not mandated. what about people who got over covid. should they be fired? they have a measure of immunity that needs to be factored into the equation the way it is in israel and europe. we are way too narrow with this super imposition. feels like principal's office. we don't want to spread covid workers to patients. testing workers is even more reliable than forcing a vaccine that's wan...

Even though there is some immunity involved with getting over covid were having testing option. germany calls the three g blood loss. a rapid test may be the most predictive of all -- but germany, asta you know, under te new incoming chancellor, may be about to go into a more superimposed vaccine mandate and lockdown. so these are shifting terrains how do you get people to comply, how to get people comfortable without them putting them at quitting their jobs? >> mike: w.h.i.p. reporting on a new variant out of south africa, concerns about it spreading and hitting young people. what you know ab...

Here in the united states even though there is some immunity involved with getting over covid or having a testing option. germany calls that the 3g's. the third is a rapid test. a rapid test may be the most predictive of all that you're not contagious or infectious but germany, as you know, under the new incoming chancellor may be about to go to a more superimposed vaccine mandate and lockdown. so these are shifting terrains, but i think the question is how do you get people to comply, how do you get people comfortable without them quitting their jobs. >> mike: we have a reporting on a new var...