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So, you think you may have been exposed to COVID-19, what's next?

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) put eight more countries on its list of states that Americans should avoid due to the high risk of being

Wanted to speak out. dr. nancy is one of the more prominent voices here. she said she was told to be quiet after she spoke out on february 25 about the risks of the virus. do you want to respond to that oversight report committee? >> well, i think nancy is a really an -- an enormous public figure. when she told the truth of what she felt was coming, there were people that were not happy about her comments. as every one knows, her comments were right on. there were decisions after that that limited cdc's ability to communicate effective to the american public. i was disappointed in that. people...

Out of the transmission pool. as we sit here today, we tonight have the number of tests that we need to have simple, reliable, weekly or twice a week testing to be able to understand how to pull yourself out of the transmission pool. i just got back from the uae. i was there eight days, decembered four times to make sure that i didn't have the virus and i was not entering in to the different environments that i went into. i think testing combined with vaccination and some smartness about mitigation steps. we have to go a -- we have to move on. we have to move on. >> martha: we're going to move...

And we expect it to become the dominant strain in the united states as it has in other countries in the coming weeks. >> martha: cdc director rochelle walensky making that prediction as omicron pops up in 39 states. the emergence of the latest variant is something that dr. robert redfield saw coming four months ago. >> sadly, i'm going to predict in two, three, four months we'll have another variant and that will be more infectious than the delta variant. >> martha: dr. robert redfield led the cdc at the beginning of the pandemic and is a virologist. welcome back. great to have you with us. gi...