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President." why then does biden get to stay in office in more people have died of coronavirus in 2021 than in 2020. if you simply look at the progression of cases and deaths, you'd have no idea that a new president took office in january of 2021. do you think that's fair? >> well, you know, martha, the real enemy here is the virus. there's areas that really disappoint me. you mentioned one in the earlier part of your show. there's not been a real push in private and public partnership to give the nation the tests that we need. we need 1 to 2 billion tests a month. we have to embrace knowledge ...

Testing is now made optional and, frankly, minimized. i mean, nothing changes if you have a negative test there, right? you're still in isolation for five days. i think what's important to remember as well, jake, is where did the five days sort of thing come from? i think if you conceptualize this you say, okay, day zero to day 10. what's the likelihood of contagiousness at any given time? what you find is at day five in the middle there you're still about 31% of people are still going to be contagious. so that -- about one-third of people, jake, still contagious at that point. if they're not ...

The school district to become a health clinic and again, that is not a core competency of our public schools. public schools should focus on education and providing social, emotional help for young children in the city that is sorely needed. >> the union will vote tonight on whether or not they'll show up for work tomorrow and if they don't, the city will be forced to decide whether to give into their demands and move completely online for the next two weeks or to shut down the schools completely until a deal is reached. sandra. >> sandra: huge decisions that matter to so many. garrett, thank ...

Contagious before you go back into your workforce, your family, and potential shed the virus more. >> i think that's significant as well. sanjay, you have a news say on this issue coming out soon on cnn.com about how the cdc is missing the mark on these guidelines. what do you see as the main failure here? >> well, first of all, i completely agree with dr. harmon here on the fact it is confusing. i mean there's a couple of things. i don't know if we have this graph, wolf. i want to show you one of the studies they actually looked at to determine how contagious are you on what day after you hav...

I spent several days trying to get tested at local pharmacies and couldn't find them. for someone that doesn't have sick leave, the days mean they're not getting the money that they need to pay rent or put food on the table. >> you touched on something important here. that is the difficulty in getting tests, getting tested. so you know, the american people look at the programs have been passed. you had $35 billion ramped up. the need we need to spend our tax dollars on this, we need more testing. $35 billion in the first round. second round, $47 billion. about 2.6 billion in these relief packa...