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How long are you contagious if you contract COVID, particularly as the highly contagious omicron subvariant BA.5 continues to grow in dominance?

Are provocative. here is the bottom line. helt me read it to you here right off the top. with evidence that covid-19 is becoming a milder nekds in most children, and at a time when all adults and youth in k-to-12 settings have been offered vaccination, the children's hospital of philadelphia supports in-person education. a and now, look at this. even in times of significant community transmission. this -- this is a pretty incredible thing, right? this is one of the most preeminent children's hospitals on the planet. okay. so how are they going to accomplish that? well, they suggest discontinui...

Require vaccinations with an option for weekly testing. the rule is expected to affect more than 80 million workers. dr. marc siegel professor of medicine at the langone medical center and andy mccarthy. both fox news contributors. dr. siegel. given the vaccine mandate was put in place by president biden when delta was at its height. now we have the omicron variant which the vaccines don't protect us against. maybe from hospitalizations. dr. fauci and the fda commissioner said that the other day. are the vaccine mandates obsolete at this point? >> yes, dana, that's very well said. andy can arg...

Measures. if we put these in place, then we can do well by our kids. my concern is that many places, schools aren't implementing necessarily all of these measures. i recognize there are going to be some circumstances where if many educators are out sick, if they test positive, they may have to take temporary emergency measures but we should be doing everything we can to get our kids back to school as soon as possible. >> so let me ask you about that because you talk about educators being out and specifically, what we are talking about vaccinated educators or vaccinated asymptomatic educators, ...

Many say they feel unsafe. they say the school district isn't doing enough. the union is asking for n95 masks, consistent weekly testing for everybody, and guaranteed sick leave. >> some people just want to be safe. i mean, it is, it is a surge that we are concerned about. >> now, some teachers chose not to participate. >> elementary schools have chosen to participate because we know how hard that is on parents. >> in oakland, a group of teachers is planning a one-day sick out for today. norwegian and royal caribbean cruise lines canceled after covid outbreaks. some passengers disembarking t...