this. if there was ever a question in the age of modern, broken medicine, health care workers are expendable cogs in a very giant wheel as evidenced by the recent covid guidance from the cdc. back to work, y all. screw team safety. would you say that now that the cdc is shortening quarantine? i am less mad today than i was yesterday. you were ticked off. tell us what the motivation was. we feel frustrated for you, without a doubt, when i see more headlines in newspapers of, you know, doctors saying, just do the right thing, nurses saying, do the right thing, but what at that moment puts you to that point? you know, within a couple of days we got some guidance from the cdc that basically said, hey, if your hospitals are really bad, you guys can go back
rounds. so is covid. for the second year in a row, the pandemic bringing a lot of folks the equivalent of a lump of coal. airlines struggle with a shortage of flight crews and operations staff. overnight, the cdc announcing a big change in its covid guidance. health care workers who test positive for covid-19 but are asymptomatic can return to work after seven days with a negative test instead of ten days. the isolation time can be cut even further to prevent staffing shortages. that s a big change. omicron surpassed last summer s delta surge in terms of infections. the daily average of new infections topping 182,000. in washington, d.c., covid cases breaking the previous record. the nation s capital has seen 386% increase the last search days. but keep this in mind, the key metric that we health officials are watching, and that is
international tournament in the olympics when it was russia and germany in the final, you couldn t find a person that cared about that final here in north america. that is just the nature of the beast, isn t it? what about the players? do they feel robbed? how are they going to feel about it? they are massively disappointed. they entered into this agreement knowing that there was a chance that if covid 19 interrupted the season, that they may lose their chance to play in the olympics. but it is a huge disappointment. you have star players in this league that have not gotten their chance to represent their country yet in the olympics. you have star players like alex ovechkin, currently chasing wayne gretzky s all time goals record in the national hockey league, who has been chasing a gold medalfor his entire career for russia. there are young players that feel they could get another shot at this in 2026 but one, connor hellebuyck, of the winnipeg jets, for example, who is expected to be
welcome to bbc news. i m david eades. our top stories: free covid tests for all americans, president biden tries to stop the spread of the omicron variant, urging people to get vaccinated. let me say again and again and again and again, please get vaccinated. it s the only responsible thing to do. israel becomes the first country in the world to make a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine available. new covid guidance comes into force across england, with quarantine for infected people being reduced from ten days, to seven. london s high court orders the ruler of dubai to pay more than $700 million in a divorce settlement to his ex wife, princess haya ofjordan.
this is bbc news. our top stories: free covid tests for all americans president biden tries to stop the spread of the omicron variant, urging people to get vaccinated. let me say again and again and again and again, please get vaccinated. it s the only responsible thing to do. israel becomes the first country in the world to make a fourth dose of the coronavirus vaccine available. new covid guidance comes into force across england with quarantine for infected people being reduced from ten days, to seven. london s high court orders the ruler of dubai to pay more than $700 million in a divorce settlement to his ex wife princess haya ofjordan.