public circumstances to go to restaurants, to get on airplanes and the like, we might improve our control of not only omicron but covid generally. so is that something, dr. schaftenaar, get you on the record as a cdc adviser talked about withined cdc to mandate vaccines for air travel to get more folks vaccinated to simplify things? i advise the cdc on vaccine-related issues but not mandates. so i m sure that s the sort of thing that is under discussion. i m not part of those discussions. and i have no idea whether they are in the pipeline or have been put aside. do you know how quickly, dr. schaftenaar, they decided to reduce the isolation period from ten to five days? how those meetings went? again, those are not meetings i m part of, but i think those
example, more than half of all of their passengers yesterday did not arrive to their expected destination time within four hours of what that was supposed to be because of delays. reinforcement are on the way. talking about the new cdc guidelines, the doctor a second ago describing economic repercussions, thread the needle, was safe and good for the economy. both asked for short window for quarantine, those asymptomatic and vaccinated. got broader diedlines now from the cdc. notable, the flight attendants association, folks doing the most interaction with passengers, are much opposed. some cases, ten days to five might be okay, but not true across the board. some returning to work maybe vaccinated but sick exposing the virus to people traveling. dr. schaftenaar, talk through
and then omicron forcing more closures across the board. apple temporarily shutting down about 20 of its retail stores after a wave of covid-19 hitting their employees. we have got a stellar team following all of the late ef developments. mime memoli. in delaware traveling with the president. sam brock at miami international airport. shaq brewster in indianapolis for us. drmt william schaftenaar, associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine at university of virginia and a cdc adviser, by the way. and dr. ebony hilton a professor of preventative medicine and infectious diseases at vanderbilt university medical center. welcome, all. thanks for joining us on this. mike, start with you. walk us through the guidelines that i just laid out for folks there as we are trying to grapple with what this means
based on sequencing they re doing. most cases are still delta related and bracing for what this new variant has to offer and when already suffering and getting help from the military as it is. that, shaq, there is a huge distinction. the fact they re still dealing with the delta variant and likely see in the pipeline omicron variant creeping closer and closer to them and then what do they do? get more beds, get more folks to help treat people and save lives subsequently and then get more vaccines in people s arms. dr. schaftenaar, talk to me about the elephant in the room. testing. the exact same conversation we re having today as we had beginning of this pandemic. you have to wait in long lines. 10, 12 days waiting for results at that point doesn t even matter. the president yesterday meeting with govern otheors admitting t
all of our other social mitigation efforts together. doctor, how long will it take to get to where we need to be when it comes to testing? this is incredibly important. we can t wait until march or april to get up to the testing capacity we need in this country, considering the outbreak. yeah. we don t have a magic want. right? that can provide as many tests as we would like this afternoon. everything we ve heard from the manufacturers and from the administration is that testing materials, those tests, will become more widely available week by week as we get into the spring, but it will be into the first quarter of 2022 before they ll be available just in great abundance. so at the moment, we re all going to have to cope. as we all are. mike memoli thank you, sam brock, shaq brewster, dr. william schaftenaar, dr. ebony