in new york city, apple has closed all its stores to browsing shoppers. in maryland, courts are cutting back the winter schedule. and everywhere, health officials are fretting over the long lines for testing. i think that s going to be a significant challenge. if we can overcome the supply challenge and the cost challenge, that will help us tremendously. reporter: some think the cdc s new recommendation of a five-day isolation period for some people infected, may help with all of the challenges by getting more people back on the job. others fear this is so daunting, there s little we can do other than watch the numbers climb for a while. tom foreman, cnn, washington. peter chinhong is a specialty disease doctor from the university of california. thank you for being with us. my pleasure. thanks for having me on. one thing with certainty we can say, with omicron, a lot
and we can overcome that supply challenge and also the cost challenge, i think that will help us tremendously. reporter: some health officials think the cdc s new recommendation of a five-day isolation period for some people who are infected might help with all these challenges just by getting more people back on the job. but others fear this is so daunting, there s little we can do except watch the numbers climb for a while. tom foreman, cnn, washington. dr. peter droe vac is an infectious disease and global health expert at the university of oxford in england, and i want to thank you for joining us. doesn t it feel like we ve been here before? oh, yes, right. we have. so here we are with omicron. it is proving formidable and stressing many for good reason. and i want to point out especially health care workers, who will be responsible for that surge of patients coming in. i want to ask you something. is it possible that omicron could displace other more serious variants now? some
beyond the holiday travel problems. in new york city, apple closed all its stores. in maryland, courts are cut back thei their winter schedules. we can overcome the supply challenge and the cost challenge. that will help us. reporter: some health officials think the cdc s guidelines that short isolation periods if you are impacts that maybe that will help. it will get more people dealing with the problems. others are not convinced. they are saying whatever is happening is so aaggressive, no matter what we will the numbers will tick up, for a while. tough few weeks ahead. tom foreman, thanks. the demand for covid tests is growing by the okay.
the w.h.o. under the global vaccine. and some of the manufacturers, those have materialies. so the supply challenge. basically a supply challenge. that s what it is. is it not as simple as saying, wealthier nations are hoarding, is it more complicated when you talk about india not only through? that has had a huge impact, that. the covid supply itself has been affected by multiple challenges. and the biggest of them all is actually rich countries that are holding more than 80, any% of all the projects doses that are men to be manufactured. and they re holding them through
challenge. the doses used in the u.s. for boosters have been bought and stockpiled by and large, so the united states is not going to part with those as a national security matter. in the meantime, still a lot of people in this country who need to get vaccinated. s a absolutely. dr. scott gottlieb, thanks so much. his book uncontrolled spread is out in just two weeks. coming up on morning joe, how new york city is recovering this morning after yesterday s historic flooding. mayor bill de blasio will be our guest with an update. plus the latest on the battle against the many wildfires blazing across california right now. morning joe is coming right back. w. morning joe is coming right back