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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 ...

Will actually do. and i don't -- i don't always sense that people understand that the testing shortage itself is a self selected group of people who want to test and know. you had a big swath of the country, and a lot of it intersects on the diagram with people who are unvaccinated but not all of it who are not standing in a four-hour line on a street in new york to find out if they are positive or not. you have a big population who may have a cold or a flu who never find out what they have. i wonder what you make of sort this phase where omicron is thankfully for mostly vaccinated people more...

Developing continue to develop to contain covid and other strains. >> that's not what we heard in the campaign trail leading up to the 2020 election. >> i'm going to shut down the virus i'll shut down the virus, not the economy. i'm not going to shut down the country but i'm going to shut down the virus. >> earlier this week u.s. report over 1 million new covid cases in a single bank shattering previous records amid a testing shortage. the white house assigned to contracts with industry to boost test working toward the goal of procuring half a billion. on the economics fund, u.s. added 199,000...

Making on how we're addressing the pandemic through messaging or through political concerns. >> harris: jackie heinrich live at the white house. >> they are defending the cdc admit criticism its new post infection testing guidelines are confusing saying the president has full confidence in his medical team of experts at the cdc. this as the director walensky denies a nationwide testing shortage influenced the agency's decision not to include a testing component in the revised quarantine guidance. days earlier she made the case testing after isolation is unnecessary because the tests don't reli...

A stunning gap. >> two different worlds there. in the meantime, the testing shortage does remain problematic. the white house says the first of 500 million free covid-19 tests will start arriving for distribution early next week. officials are working through distribution timelines. they say that americans will be able to start ordering the tests online later this month. starting saturday, health insurers have to cover at-home covid tests without co-pays and deductibles. insurers will be required to pay for eight tests per covered individual per month. let's bring in cnn's senior medical corre...