the white house rolled out its free at-home testing site today. a limit of four per household and it will take a couple of weeks before the tests get to people s doorsteps. will this effort ultimately make any sort of dent in the pandemic? well, maybe not for this big omicron surge, but going forward, yes. i think tests are critical a critical tool to help us get back to normal. it s how we are going to be able to understand whether that tickle in your throat is just a tickle in your throat or whether it s covid. and whether you need to stay home. it s a tool to allow you to go visit your friends on saturday night which is what we and our friends did before we met this past weekend. so it s going to be critical to have tests in every home. it would have been wonderful for us to have had this months ago, but here we are and i m glad the administration is doing this. but for most people they won t be able to get these tests until
two democratic governors today making big moves to ease covid restrictions. next hour, governor phil murphy will detail a plan to end new jersey s mandates in schools effective the second week of march. and the delaware governor announced two shifts. a statewide indoor mask mandate will end this coming friday. and dellaware s in-school mask mandate. you see the big omicron surge coming down. also hospitalizations and deaths trending down. the big omicron spike, yellow is the cases, giant drop in recent days. and the cases that some hospitalizations in new jersey also trending down. so is this a movement about to come? there are 15 states plus d.c. that have some form of mask mandate in place. some of these are case dependent, some have exemptions and caveats. 15 states plus d.c. still have mask mandates in place. are they about to fall? let s get insights and expertise