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i m john avlon with kaitlan collins. and we begin with the cdc cutting the recommended isolation period for many infected americans in half. the agency now reducing the number of days from 10 to 5 if you are asymptomatic. the cdc also is now recommending the same amount of time for vaccinated people to quarantine if they are exposed to the virus with no quarantine at all if you are boost. tr dr. anthony fauci says it is part of an effort to get people back to work faster amid major concerns about staffing shortages at hospitals, airlines and businesses because of the omicron surge. president biden is now grappling with the failure that could have been foreseen as the omicron wave has exposed shortages in the u.s. and access to testing. many frustrated americans are now waiting in long lines for tests if they can get them at all. speaking to governors on monday, the president conceded that steps he took to scale up testing capacity weren t enough to meet the demand.
people, particularly in the developing world in parts of the world that don t having a says to the vaccine. you know, south african, for example, a very low vaccine nation rate. they have been trying to get access to the moderna vaccine to create their own version of it to distribute to their citizens to get a handle on this, running up against concerns from the companies who say look if we re not able to protect our intellectual property and market this we won t be age do the r&dr in the future. the white house trying to balance the equities as they work with the w.h.o. on the most effective way to get as many shots into arms as possible. do you expect to see the president at all today, josh? reporter: we do, based on something that the first lady jill biden said yesterday, we expect that the bidens are going to attend a christmas tree lighting here on the island of nantucket. i was just out a little bit ago if town. you could see the secret service