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The biden administration says that's why the c.d.c. cut down the quarantine time to help get people back on the job. >> that's one of the reasons why the c.d.c. has made this now a movement towards getting people back who are without symptoms after five days rather than ten days. so that's the exact reason for doing that. if you are without symptoms and you are capable of working, you want to safely get people back to work. >> the testing problem could be an even bigger problem if the biden administration's vaccine or test mandate goes into effect as planned on monday. the supreme court is hol...

Anymore,s if your job. because he went on to outline the things that he was trying to do to catch up to the testing problem and acknowledging as we've just been talking about that we need to do better. but i think somewhat more has been made of that little sort of polite beginning of the conversation than is warranted. >> i do think that it will be worth watching because governor hutchinson also told the president that there was a concern that his plan by the federal government to distribute half a billion tests for free to homes to people who apply for them online could hurt resources that ar...

In wilmington, delaware, following the president, to talk more about this. the president has a lot on his plate in the coming year, but we got to start with, of course, the surge of omicron. two major things here he's dealing with, high case loads across the country and you have a major testing problem. what are they planning to do to deal with this? >> yeah, yasmin, i think if you were to ask most top biden administration officials if there was a list of things from 2021 that they wish they could maybe do over or not do at all, i think just about all of them would point to that moment around ...

>> well, there is legislation moving through our general assembly that in fact says, absolutely. schools must be open five days a week. that in fact, virtual learning is a tool of last resort. right now, we need to get our kids back in school. i also think there's a tremendous opportunity for us to revise the protocols that we are using when a child is exposed but showing no symptoms in school. an incredibly important tool for us. the challenge we have is we don't have enough testing kits. here we are in january dealing with a surge and we don't have enough testing kits. we are doing everythin...

>> well, there is legislation moving through our general assembly that in fact says, absolutely. schools must be open five days a week. that in fact, virtual learning is a tool of last resort. right now, we need to get our kids back in school. i also think there's a tremendous opportunity for us to revise the protocols that we are using when a child is exposed but showing no symptoms in school. an incredibly important tool for us. the challenge we have is we don't have enough testing kits. here we are in january dealing with a surge and we don't have enough testing kits. we are doing everythin...