to make giant investments in the climate fight. and so long social distancing. the cdc and some of its covid recommendations including the 6-feet rule. the white house says these new guidelines should make our third covid school year almost normal. we ve had two incredibly hard years in terms of kids in schools. we should look forward to a very different school year. we should look forward to a school year where every child is in school, in person full-time for the full year. i think we have all the ability to do that. and that should be the only acceptable standard. we begin the hour with the countdown to knowing more about the documents donald trump took when he left the white house and the warrant the fbi served this week to take them back. one new report today says the classified records include documents related to nuclear weapons. another, quote, sources saying the fbi asked for this unprecedented warrant because it had reason to believe some of the documents invo
that group. we re talking about the cdc here. what about the fda and the new home-testing guidelines? yes. we ve all gotten used to these at-home antigen tests. they are to be used serially. you should be using not just one but one after another after another if you get a negative result. a pcr result, when you re infected, a pcr is going to be right 95% of the time if you re truly infected, it ll say, yep, there s the virus. the antigen test will be right only 80% of the time. that s a significant difference. but if you keep using them, don t just rely on one, keep using them, have a lot of them at home. that s the best way to go. grateful for the very, very important updates. ahead for us, a new survey says americans are beginning to feel a little bit better about the economy. steroid free spr. while other allergy sprays take hourss astepro starts working in 30 minunutes.
fda about at-home antigen tests, it s a little confusing, the fda saying those tests are not as sensitive to detecting omicron, but the white house team stressed the at-home tests still offer, quote, an important use. jeremy diamond joins me. jeremy, i know you just spoke to the covid-19 response director. what did he tell you? reporter: that s right, i asked at the coronavirus briefing specifically about the 500 million happen at-home tests that the white house is set to ship to americans beginning next month. and the news that he gave me is that they re still in the process of finalizing the contract to obtain those. but he says he does expect that contract to be completed late next week. of course, that would be the end of the first week of january. meaning that americans likely won t begin to see see the at-home covid tests until end of january. he said the details are forthcoming still in terms
hoped to enter 2022 under far more normal circumstances. instead, this surge in coronavirus cases is really testing his ability to contain the pandemic and to reassure americans that there may be an end somewhere in sight. right now his strategy is focused on surging resources to states where hospitals have felt the strain. and also to bolster testing resources to try to ease those long lines at testing sites and delays in results that americans are seeing around the country. so ten days ago, the president promised that there would be 500 million at-home antigen tests that americans would be available to order line. still a lot of questions about those tests. we do expect to learn more about that at the end of this week. the federal government is also opening a testing site in new jersey. that opened on saturday. they re going to open testing sites in washington, d.c. and philadelphia, as well. now, the other thing to watch this week is the supreme court. the justices will hear oral ar
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