of transmitting the virus. dr. wallensky was pressed with why no tests is required to confirm an all clear. antigen test was not authorized for this purpose. it s information whether or not useful regardless of what the antigen test said, we would say you still have to wear your mask for five days. those antigen home tests which have been less in supply and less able to detect omicron. lauren johnson took four of them and came back negative and still she got a pcr. my pcr test was positive. you can have what s called a false negative and that can give you a false sense of confidence. kerry sanders is reporting there. a closer look on how the cdc s isolation guidelines are impacting two key industries, flight attendants and nurses say the new covid recommendations
dramatically that we ll have a hard time keeping everyday life operating. already we are seeing it in our healthcare settings where we can lose our healthcare workers who are not available to work. we are seeing that right now in critical infrastructure area where people can t come to work. to me, ideally you would like to have more time to allow people to clear the virus and not potentially be transmitting it. at the same time we got to have people who are there everyday who are doing the work. how can you provide the safest environment. i support what they are doing. i think it s not perfect. it won t be perfect and what we have come before us the next few weeks is hardly going to allow for a perfect response. one of the things that raised our eye brows yesterday, dr. wallensky, when i asked her should you show a negative test after five days and not just put a mask when you go back to school. she says well a lot of those tests will show you positive
know how the tests will perform, whether they can predict whether you can transmit virus or not. in another interview on cnn, roy lenky said the new guidelines, quote, really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. there s also a debate over what it means to be, quote, fully vaccinated and whether that term should include a booster. two officials tell the new york times the biden administration is considering scrapping the term and replacing it with language that reflects vaccinations. it should be, quote, up to date. as the times notes, redefining wait means to be fully vaccinated will surely incite political backlash. tens of millions who consider themselves vaccinated, without boosters could lose access to restaurants, offices, concerts, events, gatherings, any place
million kids, for example, in new york city or hundreds of thousands of kids in washington or cities across the country where we see people fighting to get into the cvs or walgreens. how do you get a testing regime for a country this big and all these schools? well, that s a great question. thankfully when the american rescue plan passed, included $10 billion for testing as early as march. there are protocols in place, the rocket foundation rolled up their sleeves. it s not something new and it s not the district is compeing with those looking for tests at cvs. there are tests available for school and one of the pieces of information that we put in a guidance to remind folks the importance of testing protocols so that not only do we open our schools but we keep them open. we need to be thinking
test. there will be so many people who want to be tested but you don t have a test. how can you have a recommendation to say get tested but you can t find one. i was walking home from work and they have those mobile vans to test people. long lines on the block and when you get to the front of the line, due to volume, it s a 72 hour return time. for those three days, do you stay-at-home or do the test mean anything after three days? the at-home test, these rapid tests that so many are relying on if we can get our hands-on them. it s difficult to get the pcr appointment, you don t trust those necessarily, the rapid test. i don t. we need more information. if fda really has let us down in those areas, we need more information about how often are they correct. we have many, many examples of people who two and three days into their illness are testing