testing supply going forward and impacts to testing. of course in the future. those are some of the consequences and the white house would very much like to see the $10 billion package go through. all right. joe johns live from the white house, thank you. still ahead. call it glass gate? well, there s intrigue around the story. the white house is facing a crystal crisis. that stretches back several administrations. kate bennet is looking into this. sme ll explain what or who might be to blame. up next. tonight the unbelievable true story who took on putin and lived to tell the truth. ng] oven roasted cooold cuts cooold cututs
controlled without testing? without enough tests, it seems unlikely that can happen. i think it would be very challenging to have enough tests to control the spread at a population level. we see in places like england and germany that have really abundant testing. they re unable to control the spread completely, even if the testing is providing some benefit, and even now the u.k., you know, there s reports that they re having shortages of tests even though they have an enormous and free supply of tests. omicron is blowing through, you know, any testing supply. dr. mazer, what do you think they should be doing with tests, to help the greater good? i think, you know, a lot of universities and schools, i should say i m speaking my own opinion, and you know, a lot of universities and schools have done a lot of surveillance testing of symptomatic, asymptomatic populations to try to keep people safe in some of these dorm settings and close knit quarters, and now the
like hospital labs. that can administer tests with a quick turnaround so our students stay in the classroom. i tried to press him a bit on timeline. when is this going to happen? that this is going to get better on the testing situation and he would not commit to anything specific. although we were talking about maybe an end of february wave we re talking about and hopefully the testing supply getting into the market here with those .5 billion tests going out. he said a lot of those will go not to schools, but to families, which then would be expected to test their children before they go to school. he said they are working to clarify this guidance they gave to schools called test to stay. i said how can they test if they don t have the tests? so the department of education is working the phones to try and clarify with schools how they can use this protocol without the actual tests until they get the tests so then hopefully other the next few weeks. on staffing shortages, it was
chicago are the ones are the ones paying the consequences. teachers and students are back in the classroom today. if the union votes do not show up for two weeks, than the city says they would essentially be on an illegal strike and schools would be shut down until he deal is reached. dana: thank you. trace: let s bring in john hopkins university professor, marty makary. he s also a fox news contributor. always great to see you. your recent op-ed, the headline reads the following. university covert policies are antiscience and anti-recent. give it to us in that order. why are colleges not falling science and why are they being unreasonable? speak out its groupthink. if you look at how they re using testing. we are depleting our testing supply in the united states.
experts on this like is there any precedent for that happening? they re sick of the false lexicon of the vaccinate and unvaccinated when we know it s immune and nonimmune and you will still get the common cold illness like omicron even if you have immunity. they are sick of being told to be tested incessantly with a scarce testing supply. sick of quarantines for mild illness and then being told to test at the end of a quarantine with a low sensitivity test. they are sick of watching children go through high rates of suicide and mental illness a recent statistic found that 31% of parents now are reporting that their kids mental health is much worse. sick of boosters. people are sick of all of it. they are sick of all of it we need to stop the nonsense, stop this damage to public health credibility. and move on. because, this had a case