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Accurate. most cases yes, they're not going to be infectious after five days but with omniicron, w don't need many cases to begin to spread. it does require a lot of people wearing n-95 and kn-95 masks constantly for another five days and we know that's not happening very conscientiously in the united states. finally there is no tests. if you can get the results back eight to ten hours at day five and thank you knew you were negative, i would feel confident with that advise. the testing problem means you are going to make the decision of done of isolation without knowing your test status. that...

Omicron variant as it spreads across the country. lauren blanchard is live with for. >> today president biden will meet with the nation's governors and the covid response team to talk about what comes next. some states are reinstating mask mandates. others are considering shortened quarantine periods to help get people back to work faster. more than anything, the president is likely to be asked where are the tests is last week the president promised 500 million free of charge rapid test kits but the tests won't be available until next month. not all at once and well past the holidays. the webs...

Testing surge in october? does the buck stop with you there? with respect to the surge. >> we didn't reject it. >> the administration says it will order 500 million at home tests for americans to request free online. the website isn't up yet and the tests will likely go out next month, well after the holidays. >> we are addressing the testing problem and very soon that that will be corrected 12k3w4r-z speaking to governors today, the president stressed local officials are largely responsible for handling this surge. there is no federal solution. this, he says, gets solved at the state level. i...

Legislation has been such an incredible mess. you tried to get answers from the president's point man on the issue. was he able to give you any? >> he gave us some answers, anderson, but danced around other questions. he said they acknowledged there are problems and said this is not acceptable, people getting booted off et cetera and have people working 24/7 to fix the problems so i followed one this. many argued you had many months to boot it up and perfect it, so why so many problems? >> we went through a testing problem, create a punch list, fix those things and the president said from the ...

Issue. was he able to give you any? >> he gave us some answers, anderson, but danced around other questions. he said they acknowledged there are problems and said this is not acceptable, people getting booted off et cetera and have people working 24/7 to fix the problems so i followed one this. many argued you had many months to boot it up and perfect it, so why so many problems? >> we went through a testing problem, create a punch list, fix those things and the president said from the beginning, with a site like this there would be glitches but let's understand why there was the ininitial pro...