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Our population that is simply not going to comply with public health guidelines, and we need to figure a way as a society to live with it and to live with this segment of our population? or is the risk just too severe for it? >> look, most public health experts say at some point the covid-19 will become endemic. that means it will be a little more like a seasonal flu or something like that. >> here to stay. >> no, i mean, i'm not going to accept, you know, a thousand or 2,000 people dying a day needlessly. that's not okay. that's a 9/11 every few days, and i don't think we should as a society ...

Both sides, and i am hoping that the -- the productivity that we've seen over the last two days will continue through the weekend. and we're going to be able to announce a deal to get our kids back in school. >> the white house says they have been in touch with both you and -- and the governor to, quote, assess your needs. governor pritzker told bloomberg news he asked for testing. what have your conversations with federal authorities been like? and what is, specifically, the issue on testing that could help? >> well, look. we -- we've been in contact with the -- the white house from the very ...

>> thinking about the conversations around our christmas table yesterday, with family, double vaccinated, boosted, and tested that morning with a lateral flow test to make sure -- but thinking about that conversation, as i'm sure similar in your own household, but thinking about the conversation, people were talking about -- family was talking about, is this the future? where we have to live with it, so it's no longer pandemic, it's endemic. we have a testing regime. and you just get on with it. >> there is an element of thinking that takes us along that line. but i hope we don't have to just ...

Testing regime and the self—isolation rules. because cases of coronavirus are so high in the community at the moment, we no longer need routinely to take a follow—up pcr test after a positive lateral flow test result. 0ur wales correspondent, hywel griffith, has been telling us the latest update has thrown up some suprises. perhaps what many people were expecting was a suggestion that there be no changes for at least two weeks while many thought that we might be approaching the peak of the 0micron wave, the highest figures during this pandemic in terms of case rates. he suggested the model...

However, i guess there are a lot of people questioning the testing regime. and, you know, the more tests you get, the more you don't have symptoms and you test positive and you are out of work for five days. 10 days maybe for some universities and some major companies. it's a major disrupter to the country. we are stuck in this situation because the biden administration failed to order rapid tests between january and september. they still haven't fulfilled this 50 million to fq 8 cs that they promised in december. and these 500 million tests are going to be delivered by their requested proposa...