national guard is being deployed for more health care workers. now, with omicron in the mix, new forecasting from the centers of disease control updates 44,000 new covid deaths over the next month. tom foreman has our lead story this hour. reporter: schools in d.c. will require all students and staff to have negative covid tests to come back to class. new york city will require rigorous testing, too. all that as the white house says it plans to sign a contract for a 500 million at-home covid tests next week. as the center for disease control faces sharp questions for new guidelines for covid-weary americans. it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. reporter: the recommendation of five instead of ten isolation days for those testing positive but not showing no symptoms, then five days of masking, is aimed at keeping people working. but it s raising alarms, too. there s absolutely no data
too much on keeping business going, and not enough on keep people safe, especially healthcare workers right in the middle this pandemic storm. schools in d.c. will require all students and staff to have negative covid tests to come back to class. new york city will require rigorous testing, too. all that as the white house says it expects to sign a contract for a half billion at-home covid tests next week. as the centers for disease control faces sharp question over new guidelines for covid-weary americans. it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. reporter: the recommendations of five instead of ten ice lace days for those testing positive, but showing no symptoms, then five days of masking, is aimed at keeping people working, but it s raising alarms, too. there s absolutely no data that i m aware of with the omicron variant that holds
decision we made. president biden speaking yesterday about his decision to impose travel restrictions from south africa and seven other countries starting monday over the new covid omicron variant. what do we need to know in fact? fox news medical contributor dr. marty makary. always great to talk to you. happy thanksgiving and good morning to you. you too. good morning. will: how much certainty people speak with not just speak with you about impose policy based upon at the same time we know very little. i would love to go with you what little we do know. do travel restrictions work? we already learned it escaped rafer from canned and in netherlands does travel restrictions help to keep a new variant out of the united states. it may work when there is not a period of active testing like last year. now we have such rigorous testing. some of these people going back and forth are doing medical surveillance and research.
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particular this is something where the federal government had been trying to explore how much power they had in terms of requiring this. the what is going to be new today is the president is signing an executive order that will mandate vaccines for all federal workers which is something we reported earlier in the day. but what we re now learning and able to report is that any company with more than 100 employees is also going to be subject to having some of these mandates for vaccineors submitting to rigorous testing. in addition to that, all health care facilities, so we re talking hospitals, anything that has to do with that will now also have to have all of their staff fully vaccinated. so all told this is going to affect about 100 million workers. so that is really about two-thirds of the entire workforce. so the white house is doing this through a couple different avenues. for instance, we know what federal workers will face if they don t get vaccinated. they re going to have abou