can upgrade to the iphone 13 on us. on our most popular max plan. do we have a plan for the second half? nah, we re gonna get creamed. but we ll be on t-mobile! today the supreme court is hearing oral arguments on president biden s covid-19 vaccine and testing mandates. the court appears to be open to mandates for health care workers, but some justices seem more skeptical of the president s vaccine requirements for workers at large companies. and today, the president spoke about the pandemic. listen. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment
which stated that he had contracted covid-19 in december and because of the recent covid-19 diagnosis, he s precluded from getting a vaccine for the next six months. that s according to australia s immunization body who said that there s the possibility that it would be unsafe to get vaccinated so soon after recovering from covid-19. now the government says that that s actually not a loophole that they respect in the system, that its security states everyone has to be vaccinated unless you have a serious medical issue, an adverse reaction perhaps to that vaccine. so those are the two sides that will be argued in court on monday. tennis australia maintains that it s done all it could to get its champion through immigration, into australia, and making him available to contest his championship grand slam. he s going forises 21st for
we ve got we have a systematic review in the journal of global health. they looked at 90 studies of the impact of school closures on covid transmission. their conclusion is schools have a protective effect, because they re relatively structured environments. they say when you close schools, you approximately double practically double the risk a child will attract covid. they act like when you close a school, the children go and disappear into a closet and interact with no one rather than being out in the community and interacting with lots of people which is what actually happens. this is drier all the science. even if the only thing you care about is covid which is still some elements of the left in this country but we also know the massive educational harms, mental health harms and suicide rates and drug overdoses, they don t care. it s unbelievable. i ll tell you what, the administration has zero control over there. biden walks out and says every school should be opened, they
that s my concern. neil: kristin, what do you think is going on here? and does the administration appreciate the enormity of this? of course they do. i think, you know, it s really interesting to see like i was reading like 7% of restaurant and bar workers changed or quit their jobs in november and are looking for new jobs. i m a small business owner, two small businesses and i ve seen an enormous change by covid, what are people looking for? people are changing and looking for more flexibility. looking to work from home. i think there are a lot of different reasons for this and these are just challenges that at the federal level, it s hard to wrap your hands around. some is people looking for different opportunities, they have families, single mothers want to be able to work from home and then, you know, how do you deal with that at the federal level? thing these are all questions and culturally, i agree, it s
record-setting number of cases almost two years into the pandemic. no, i don t think covid is here to stay, but having covid in the environment and in the world is here to stay. covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many more tools we re developing and continue to develop that will contain covid and other strains of covid. reporter: earlier this week the u.s. recorded over one million new covid cases in a single day, neil, shattering the previous record. it comes amid a testing shortage. the true number of cases might be even higher. the white house has signed two contracts to boost the number of tests. the cdc director has come under increasing scrutiny with critics mocking the credibility of her agency. we re in an unprecedented time with the speed of omicron cases rising, and we are working really hard to get information to the american public.