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>> vicky ward, thank you for being here and for your reporting on this for nearly two dec dec de decades. i encourage people to watch your special and read your news letter. thanks for the time this morning. >> thank you so much. next, some new year's eve events are canceled or scaled down. the testing shortage and hospitals overwhelmed. how did we get back here? my next guest details the lessons we failed to learn in the first few waves of this pandemic and mistakes we're still making. but the thing they'll remember forever? grandpa coming out of retirement to give a few ski lessons. the ti...

Is the best way to keep you out of the hospital and keep you out of the morgue. so it makes a big difference. if i am looking for any silver linings at all, poppy, it's as you point out, um, maine, new hampshire, hospitalizations are up. but infections are coming down a little bit. so maybe, like we saw in south africa, um, there is a spike up and then a spike down. so, um, i would like to think that could be the case. but we also have omicron coming up from new york and new jersey, so we're right now in the crosshairs. >> you have called up connecticut's national guard to help distribute 6 mi...

Purchased to six. obviously it becoming very difficult to get these tests and they have limited effectiveness in detecting omicron. but if you can get one, go ahead, use it especially if you are showing some kind of symptoms of covid. that's when they are at their most accurate. julie, back to you. >> julie: gerrwillis, thank you. >> president biden: there is no federal solution. this gets solved at a state level. i'm looking at governor tsunami tsunami -- sununu on the board. where the rubber meets the road. >> benjamin: president biden dodging responsibility for the testing shortage. it must...

Those additional five days. it's not just five days of isolation and then you go about your business. you should also be wearing a mask which reduces that risk for the last 10%. >> one of the questions when this guidance came out was the decision not to include testing here. there has been speculation that perhaps that wasn't being recommended for asymptomatic people when they leave isolation for five days because perhaps there is a testing shortage. there is a testing shortage. dr. walensky said those two things aren't connected, that an at-home rapid test is not the best for trancetransmissi...

Delivered. there's still a lot of questions about how that process is going to work, though. they're supposed to be building a website for people to go and request kits and have one mailed to them. but it's unclear whether people, for example, will be limited to one kit. or can they order two or multiple kits. it's unclear exactly when the website will go up and be functional. so that's one way the white house is trying to address the testing shortage. the other way, of course, is just working with companies and getting them to ramp-up production. the president is already using something calle...