time for the airline industry. it s a bad look and i think it s going to be hard to convince customers on the fence anyway that, yeah, you can come back to the sky and not worry about it. reporter: in the meantime, aviation analyst david slotnick has good advice for passengers. constantly check your reservations. be almost obsessive about it. get as much early notice of a cancellation as you can so you can act on it very quickly. good advice. brian todd reporting live from dca, thank you. u.s. health officials are scrambling to respond to the omicron variant s fast-moving spread across the country. the cdc notably issuing new guidelines for how long infected health care workers should stay isolated at home. cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joins us now. elizabeth, what more are you learning about these new cdc isolation guidelines for health care workers and why they don t apply them to the entire
so it s always wise to use, you know, one or more of these things if you want to be doubly certain. that most of them only dramatically reduce the risk and i think what we will probably find here is that, you know, there are periods of time when omicron s infectious at the beginning where the antigen test isn t yet able to pick it up. but i think the recommendation will very likely be that you get two antigen tests in a box. take one on a monday, and then take a second one on a tuesday. and that way, you can be much more certain of the results of the test. and let s talk about these new cdc isolation guidelines. the nation s largest nurse s union is saying and we this is a quote here this is about what s good for business, not what s good for public health. the biggest flight attendants union is saying, quote, we cannot allow pandemic fatigue to lead to decisions that extend the life of the pandemic or put policies on the backs of workers. do these organizations have a point?
the american nurses association says it is deeply concerned about the change, citing insufficient evidence and concern for health care workers safety. everything we re going to do right now is going to be imperfect. just accept that right now. we don t know a lot of the things we wish we d know. but what we do know and what is emerging here is that this country is going to be in the soup just in the next few weeks with so many cases and so many locations that we re going to see critical infrastructure as well as health care challenged. take a look at this. for the first time since omicron hit, an uptick in hospitalizations. that s something to watch with data catching up from the holiday weekend. the number now almost doubling in the last eight weeks. michigan is one of several states to hit peak hospitalizations this month. the state department of health says it isn t following the new cdc isolation guidelines and it s sticking with its own rules while they wait for more informati
the politics of vaccines and masking taking center stage in florida. scientifically, do the vaccines work against preventing covid-19? yes or no. ? thank you, again, senator. so, you know, yes or no questions are not that that easy to find in science. reporter: democrats walked out on a confirmation hear for the republican s governor s pick for surgeon general. it is interesting to hear the surgeon general say that he s being guided by science but then at the same time said that mask wearing is an extreme measure. reporter: in new york, sarah palin recorrecting the cdc isolation guidelines. two days after testing positive tor covid, she s spotted eating outdoors at a raufrpts. she also ate inside of the same restaurant while unvaccinated. a violation of city rules, two days before she tested positive. and, wolf, the head of one of the largest schools districts in the nation, prince george s
take a second one on a tuesday. and that way, you can be much more certain of the results of the test. and let s talk about these new cdc isolation guidelines. the nation s largest nurse s union is saying and we this is a quote here this is about what s good for business, not what s good for public health. the biggest flight attendants union is saying quote we cannot allow pandemic fatigue to lead to decisions that extend the life of the pandemic or put policies on the backs of workers. do these organizations have a point? well, look. i d like for the the five days to at least be amended with, and after the fifth day, thou shall take a test and show a negative test or two before being released. so, as long as you say, look, if you have no symptoms and you test negative, then five days according to most people i talk to feels like it s going to be sufficient. there are people that are infectious after the seventh or