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Leading health officials about a testing requirement for a smomic individuals to get back to their routines now they they shortened the isolation period to five days. how do you do that with the testing shortage? this is a critical question that the president will be facing when he meets with advisors later this afternoon. >> if you have covid, you should quarantine yourself. and if you become a smomic it is reasonable to wear a mask and go back into the world for five days while wearing a mask. i think that is fair. the testing is one not readily available. two, it including a pcr test. so i ...

Challenges on employer vaccine mandates and additional strains on a depleted work force factored into their decision. the cdc is recommending people stay up to date and dealing fully vaxed status as the primary round of two shots. meantime lawmakers on capitol hill are gauging the need and the willingness to pass another covid relief package. the white house says they're in constant communication with congressional leadership. >> neil: thanks, jacqui. what is confusing, the testing requirement and how long it goes and if you're diagnosed with omicron, just how long you should be quarantining o...

Sufficient? >> we've known the ten-day isolation period has been one size fits all. it's usually the first five days of illness with omicron, it's similar. at the end of that, 30% are still contagious. the cdc guidance was in the right spirit trying to make isolation something that people could do and make it reflect the science of when contagiousness is at its peak. it got muddled because it came out at a surge at the same time, a lot of demand for tests and tests in scarce quantities. looks like they're flubbing on the guidance. when they put the testing requirement in, it in a wishy washy f...

Improvements. >> and though mr. biden promised to restore confidence after the trump white house manipulated public health guidance for political ends, the cdc is under fire for messaging confusion. >> it's about the cdc toeing the line of whether or not we're basing our guidelines on science. >> on masking -- >> once you're fully vaccinated, two weeks after your last dose, you can shed your mask. >> the window for boosters. >> for up to six, eight -- perhaps, we don't know. >> six months. >> five months. >> most recently a change to recommendations that people infected with the virus isolate ...

A testing requirement for the unvaccinated set to kick in next month. here's what justice sotomayor said about the covid cases in the u.s. and children getting sick. watch this. >> we have hospitals that are almost at full capacity with people severely ill on ventilators. we have over 100,000 children which we have never had before in serious condition. many on ventilators. >> martha: not true. the number is 3,500. that's on the high side according to the numbers that we looked at. let's bring in karl rove, co-founder of american crossroads and a fox news contributor. karl, the question i put ...