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Heinrich has that story tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. >> good evening, bret. it's a new we're for the biden administration many of last year's challenges persist especially related to bringing down covid cases and ramping up testing. unclear whether president biden thinks the revised cdc quarantine guidance should have included a testing component. >> i will be talking to you about that later. >> after two top public health officials made conflicting statements about whether it's necessary. >> after infection can be positive for up to 12 weeks. that is not going to be help...

Learning. chicago and boston staying with in-person learning, with massachusetts distributing more than 227,000 rapid tests to staff. and here in new york city tonight, the largest school system in the country, they were open today, handing out masks and ramping up testing. dr. ashish jha standing by to answer your questions. but we're going to begin tonight with abc's trevor ault, leading us off right here in new york. >> reporter tonight, millions of students starting the new year back in the classroom with covid cases exploding. today, the fda authorizing pfizer booster shots for 12 to 15-y...

Booster mandates, delayed campus move-ins, ramped up testing, and pivots back to remote learning these changes adding to confusion. last semester, about 50% of students went to colleges with some type of vaccine mandate but only half of the students surveyed knew their school's covid safety policies. the number of colleges with covid safety measures is already rising ucla, duke, and emory are returning to virtual learning, at least for the start of the semester the university of illinois, urbana-champaign is delaying in-person class for the first week so students can get covid tests and result...

Part of his presidency, he has basically failed on his own terms in terms of promising to shut down the virus, have us back to normal by summer, ramped up testing, et cetera, et cetera. i do think, to your point, this is maybe the of wisdom in washington where politicians are acknowledging that the urge to lock down and to restrict and mandate and order does not necessarily kill the virus, and may do a lot of harm, as we've seen. i'm hoping this is a realization that there are trade-offs, and maybe a realization that, when you put limits on society and curtail people's freedoms, there's a real...

Numbers we have not seen in a year. but my next guest, dr. adjad says cases are no longer the major metric. first, to steve harrigan with the very latest on this. steve? >> trace, president biden meeting with the white house covid response team along with a number of governors. the president saying the omicron variant was cause for concern but he said it's not a cause for panic. he also said that the federal government needs to do more when it comes to ramping up testing. >> the lines have gotten very long in some states. that's why i order fema to set up pop-up sites in places with high deman...