i had gotten tested on december 17th, i believe. i didn t get my results until december 27th and at that point it didn t really matter whether i was negative or positive. i was, by the way, negative. but this is going to continue. okay, great, thank you. we haven t caught up on testing, dr. patel. what are we to do now, returning from, of course, these holiday breaks, gathering with family, getting back to work, kids going back to school? what can we expect with this omicron variant? yasmin, i expect numbers are going to get even worse, and i think you re right to point out that testing or the shortage of testing and the short kind of ability to get a rapid at-home test and now even limited sensitivity to those rapid at-home tests to omicron, kind of all that put together means we re going to see more and more cases. we re hoping these cases will peak over the next four to six weeks, but do the math. if we re at 500,000 a day, we know that s an undercount, then we re looking at a
this is nbc nightly news with lester holt. good evening no image tells us more about the state we are in with covid right now more clearly than the latest map of places with community transmissions. places where the virus is spreading locally they re highlighted in red. yes, it is the entire country. while it appears there is no outrunning this virus, this evening, there are new efforts to keep pace the fda okaying boosters for kids age 12 to 15 also shortening the booster wait time for many others. as we return from holiday breaks, it feels like the world is on rewind schools wrestling once more with how to safely teach our children, while travelers struggle to get home in the face of covid-related flight delays. their burden made worse by a major eastern snowstorm. we have it all covered tonight starting with stephanie gosk. reporter: with covid cases soaring to record levels, an uneasy return to schools, even though more vaccine protection could soon be available today the f
trace: some kids won t be going back to school after the holiday breaks. districts switching to remote learning as covid cases surge and teacher unions push for more safeguards. many moments, ian pryor for fightforschools.com. mike tobin live in chicago. that return to normal, we just can t seem to get there especially if you re a parent or a student. with of course cases surging, parents are dreading the words remote learning. a majority of teachers said they would support a shift back to remote learning. teachers wanted more access to vaccinations and improve contact
robin, but just a reminder, i am jacob, not chuck. jason: that is all for tonight. i m jason chaffetz and for laura ingraham. be sure to check out my podcast, jason in the house. features boxes bill melugin. jason in the house. type it into your podcast. thank you so much for listening. greg gutfeld is up next. greg: you are the one. i hate you all. happy monday, everyone. so there is big news over at cnn that doesn t involve the producer molesting children. for once. i guess even take holiday breaks. it was announced that cnn has closed its offices to