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. we wen
the agency now reducing the number of days from ten to five if you re asymptomatic. the cdc also now recommending the same amount of time for vaccinated people to quarantine if they have been exposed to the virus, with no quarantine at all if you re boosted. dr. anthony fauci says the new changes are part of an effort to get people back to work faster, amid major concerns about staffing shortages at hospitals, airlines and businesses across the country, because of the omicron surge. and president biden is grappling with a failure that could have been foreseen. the omicron wave has exposed shortages in access to testing. many americans are wasting in long lines for tests, if they can get them at all. speaking to governors on monday, the president acknowledged that steps to scale up testing capacity were not enough to meet demand. it went from no over the counter tests in january, to 46 million in october. 100 million in november. and almost 200 million in december. it is n