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You talked about it, chuck, it's a lagging indicator and it's often several weeks after the fact when transmission occurs. we have seen a turndown in the number of people being tested and access to testing, and more and more people testing and no results, and i don't have a lot of faith in the numbers coming out right now, the number of cases. we are seeing it in a number of countries around the world. >> i am with you, i think all the washington, d.c. positives is because there's a cultural of testing in the federal government we don't have any other places. the waste water, is that a more re...

Course, remote learning leaving a lot of kids behind, especially kids in poorer community and housing insecure so the commitment to keeping calls is open is there but there's no doubt that this is going to be a huge challenge and the mayor's most prosing and immediate challenge. this is the nation's most largest school district but they have a testing system in place and a system for staffing, a pool of employees, waiting and standing by to stand in if that's necessary, and the question is will that work? >> everyone watching. joining us now, dr. william schaffner, professor of infectious dise...

Advanced testing system in the world. given more tests in united states that all the western hemisphere combined. so to you, i don't want to hear that you were left to plan, you were left in you burn it to the ground and now you let the americans devastated without testing and covid raging across the country. >> emily: joe, these numbers are stunning. to kaylee's point, the only country that's come close to them is indiana. their numbers were a little over 400,000 in that country's population is almost 1.4 billion. has in this president, joe biden, failed on all his pandemic promises? >> joe: ...

About the strategy. this is the balanced and the proportionate approach that we've taken to covid. we've been able to keep this country open, keep our economy moving — more open than any other comparable economy in europe, and they know it, mr speaker. with a huge rise in cases, the testing system has been under strain, so today, a change in england and wales. if you don't have covid symptoms and your lateral flow test is positive, you'll still have to isolate but won't have to confirm the result with a pcr. staff shortages, though, remain a major problem. in hospitals and other sectors, ser...

Schools, fighting to stay open? >> you know, jose, there was a day over the holiday, new year's eve day, that this city recorded 85,000 covid cases in a day, and has been smashing records here this week. 20% of the police and sanitation workers have called out sick, but still, the doors are opening this morning for kids to go back to school in person. the new mayor insisting that it is a priority, to have to be masked. students, teachers, and staff have to have a negative test. and that's the case in a lot of places. there are some school systems that have gone totally remote, like cleveland a...