covid in half. if you are asymptomatic, you now need to isolate for only five days instead of ten days. this likely welcome news for businesses across the country facing the strain of employees at home while omicron surges. and a shooting spree in the denver area has left five people dead, including the suspect. one officer was injured in a shootout with the gunman and is undergoing surgery. the motive for the shooting is unknown and the investigation is ongoing. that s newly released l.a.p.d. body cam footage showing the moments leading to the police shooting of that 14-year-old girl, valentina peralta was in a dressing room when a bullet apparently passed through the wall fatally striking her in the chest. valentina s parents will speak publicly today. and the jury in the ghislaine maxwell sex trafficking trial resumes
isolation as omicron surges. i don t think this is going to contribute to more spread. i do think it s going to create an incentive for more people to get tested. and obviously for people who need to get back to their families, get back to their kids, get back to their jobs, it lets them do that as well. overall i think this is the right policy. it s a good balancing act. the cdc s new recommendations will permit us to cope with all of this disturbance and to trim it down to allow people to come back to work earlier and safely at very low risk. i would like to emphasize the latter. and that will help us in the new year begin to get our gears back into operation, and to function better. overwhelmed hospitals are issuing disaster declarations. some have called in the national guard because they don t have enough staff. and another change from the cdc for people exposed to covid, if you are unvaccinated or received
around the corner, testing sites like the one we re at are being inundated with lines stretching for hours. tonight as omicron surges, americans are scrambling for covid tests ahead of the christmas holiday. the u.s. is struggling to contain one of the largest strikes in covid-19 cases since the pandemic began. but the tsa says the concerns have not slowed holiday travel, which on wednesday was higher than prepandemic levels. 20 million people are anticipated to fly between now and january 3rd i am also traveling today, home, and so i wanted to get tested before i went home. reporter: in the latest scientific advancement against the virus this week the fda authorized two antiviral pills to treat covid-19. paxlovid made by pfizer and molnupiravir by merck are intended for high risk individuals and must be taken within the first few days of
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talking about increasing business support. that said, the treasury are saying, look, there is support in place for business. for example, in hospitality and tourism, they play a lower they pay a lower rate of vat until next spring, some are eligible for business rates relief as well, so they are suggesting they are not abandoning the field and there are some things in place at there are some things in place at the moment but, nonetheless, there are going to be demands to ratchet that up and labour of course hoping to start positioning themselves as a party of business and hoping to exploit the fact that the chancellor is out of the country, in california, perhaps a legitimate thing for him to do but if the advice is coming in on people to be cautious up to christmas, if it has a knock on effect on hospitality in particular, labourare a knock on effect on hospitality in particular, labour are going to be running a campaign i think on the next few days calling on the chancellor to com