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With governors on the testing shortages the cdc changes isolation protocol. david, good morning. >> reporter: the change in quarantine requirements, this is what you should do if you test positive. isolate, stay home for 5 days, this applies to everyone regardless of vaccination status. if you have no symptoms or they been resolved you can leave your home, continue to wear a mask around others for 5 additional days. if you have a fever wait until it goes away. if you were exposed to someone with covid 19 quarantine. if you've been visible gotten two shots, pfizer or modernity in the last 6 mon...

Are infected, but at the same time getting you back to what might be an essential function in society. >> what do you say to people who are concerned that these revised quarantine guidelines are being driven solely by worker shortages and not necessarily in the best interest of public health? >> no, actually, we feel that it is safe to do that if you look at the chance of getting a transmission in that second half of that ten-day period, it's considerably less than in those first few days so on balance, if you look at the safety of the public and the need to have society not disrupted, this wa...

Administration's work this year expanding testing, though he acknowledges, given long lines and testing shortages, his administration has fallen short on that front. "vanity fair" reports the white house passed on a proposal in october to buy hundreds of millions of tests to prepare for a holiday surge. the president denied his administration rejected it. >> president biden, why did your administration reject a holiday testing surge in october? does the buck stopped with you there? >> didn't reject it. >> now, the president is also trying to order about 500 million tests expected to arrive som...

Christmas eve and that's with testing shortages. and none of the data includes results from those at-home covid tests. the nation overall is averaging 200,000 new cases each day right now. also concerns are growing around the risks for children. there's still a lot we don't know about the severity of omicron and people without immunity like kids who haven't been vaccinated. what we do know is the number of child hospitalizations for covid have quadrupled in new york city in recent weeks. nbc's mike memoli is traveling with the president in delaware. also with us is an epidemiologist from field...

With covid-19 on christmas eve, according to data from department of health and human services. increase of 2% from last week. the figure is below peak hospitalizations we saw during the delta surge and is half the record high we saw in january. p the hhs data show 12 states have seen at least a 10% up tick in covid-19 hospitalizations in the past week compared to the previous week. that's happening against the backdrop of a 48% increase in covid-19 cases from last week. watching case numbers surpass the summer surge, i know, yes, it is a stunning indication of how rapidly omicron is spreading...