St. Lawrence County Public Health Department reports 234 new cases of COVID-19 as of Jan 5, the second consecutive day with over 200 cases. Transmission levels of the virus is rated as high, Public …
investigators looking for one of two people missing after a destructive colorado wildfire have found partial human remains near the suspected origin of the blaze. authorities are conducting separate searches for a person reported missing in hard hit community of superior. up next the panel on more covid confusion over testing, quarantine guidance, and getting kids back to school. i do not regret my decision to end america s war fighting in afghanistan. inflation is affecting people s lives. it s a real bump in the road. there is no federal solution. this gets solved state level. bret: talk about president biden s comments recently as well. as we head to break though, some sad news to share. lawrence brooks, the oldest u.s. world war ii veteran, believed to be the oldest man in the country, has died. brooks was drafted into the army in 1940 after japan s attack on pearl harbor he was assigned to an army unit that built bridges,
he has confidence in the scientific expertise, the medical expertise of the team at the cdc. the revised isolation guidelines don t require a test to return to five days after a covid positive case. they tell people if you have access to a test and want a test, go ahead and do it. if you are positive, stay away from others until day ten. the cdc denying a nationwide shortage of test influenced its initial guidance. later changed in response to public backlash. this has nothing to do with the shortage of available tests because you can see in our quarantine guidance that we actually do recommend a test for people to emerge from quarantine. the criticism from medical experts continues. i m totally not in agreement with their decision not to do a test. it s critical that we use this testing as our guide. in other policies, the cdc does, in fact, rely on testing like with the test-to-stay
boosted, you may get covid but you re highly protected against severe illness. schools can and should be open this winter. we have all the tools to keep kids safe. unvaccinated kids are at risk. the vaccinated are protected. we wanted answers that we didn t get today. the cdc was we were told would give guidance on whether a test should be required to emerge from isolation after a positive covid case. there was a pushback over the revised quarantine guidance that anybody positive could emerge after five days instead of ten. we re told the cdc would have updated guidance. we re still waiting on that. we re also still waiting on answers why the cdc has not revised their guidance on what it means to be fully vaccinated
heinrich has that story tonight from the north lawn. good evening, jacqui. good evening, bret. it s a new we re for the biden administration many of last year s challenges persist especially related to bringing down covid cases and ramping up testing. unclear whether president biden thinks the revised cdc quarantine guidance should have included a testing component. i will be talking to you about that later. after two top public health officials made conflicting statements about whether it s necessary. after infection can be positive for up to 12 weeks. that is not going to be helpful. if you got a rapid test at five days and it was negative, we weren t convinced that you weren t still transmissible. why not test people at that time? i myself feel that s a reasonable thing to do. now the administration is floating more possible policy changes in response to public pressure. there has been some concern about why we don t ask people at