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Days. get them back doing their job, their work. keeping their mask on to protecting. they from infecting other individuals. >> now, meantime, testing in the united states just hasn't kept pace with the spread of the virus wait times. in some cities, it is two hours or more and of course a shortage of testing resources. the virus seem to be affecting more children than ever before. hospitalizations are up 35% in the past week alone. those numbers remain low in general. new york city has, though, seen a fivefold increase this month alone. and forced airline cancellations of thousands of flights...

Return to the classroom. let's discuss with chicago's commissioner of public health, doc doctoral allison arwady, where are those in chicago refusing to work in person yet again tomorrow? >> their worried that the schools are not safe. i get that we are in a covid surge and that there is a lot of worries in chicago overall. but when i look at risk benefit in chicago, more than 90% of our staff fully vaccinated, much higher vaccination rates among children than in the national average. we're not seeing, thank god, people who are vaccinated and boosted, if their adults, getting seriously ill and...

A helpful call, but i have some cautions. first, we're already stressed for testing resources, right, so that will be an issue very practically, and each test, both the pcr test, the very serious gold standard test and the rapid test have their limitations. we need to understand them, interpret them clearly as we go forward and use them more widely. >> dr. william, always appreciate your insight. thanks for joining us today. >> my pleasure. >> well, for folks maybe trying to get home still from their perhaps now extended holiday, thousand of flight cancellations to tell you about again, and th...

Gathering indoors with high-risk people. >> order the tests before you need them. if they wait until they have an issue, by the time the tests arrive, the optimal time for testing may well have passed. >> reporter: dr. william schaasc schaafer in authority on immunization practices. >> you will have to find testing resources elsewhere. >> reporter: casey, what's not clear is whether or not the postal service is adding more mail carriers to deliver these tests given the staffing issues they faced. two of the postal unions tell me their understanding is they will not be adding any mail carriers....

>> reporter: dr. william schaffner is part of the cdc's advisory committee on immunization practices. >> if you've been exposed and don't have the tests available, you'll have to find testing resources elsewhere. >> reporter: what's not clear this morning is whether the postal service is adding more mail carriers to actually deliver these tests given some of those staffing issues, although two of the postal unions tells us their understanding is there won't be mail carriers added. that work is going to be put on the staff they already have. we haven't gotten a lot of information from the posta...