Some adding booster requirements to vaccine mandates. others increasing testing protocols or upgrading standards for masks. princeton university announcing travel restrictions that will bar students from leaving the county or township upon return to campus. then just as quickly scrapping that plan. while yale tries a campuswide quarantine for the start of the semester telling students avoid local businesses, restaurants and bars, including outdoor drinking or dining. the latest attempts to manage the spread of omicron deflating to too many students trying to capture what s left of a fleeting college experience. it seems kind of scary that it might be a regress toward what it was earlier. i spent the majority of my day in my apartment, not getting like the air, exercise or social interaction that i think is necessary and healthy for especially college-aged people. it s like really hard to work in your room alone on that. so i think that would be just like a big adjustment going back
Booster requirements and new expanding testing we will be here every week answering tonight, breaking news from washington. the abc news exclusive. with america bracing for omicron, now the dominant variant here in the u.s., my one-on-one with president biden at the white house. tonight, so many of you asking, where are the test kits? we ask the president about the long lines across this country. americans waiting for hours. and those empty shelves at pharmacies. how soon will there be help? also, the major announcement from the fda tonight, authorizing the first covid pill in the u.s., the pfizer pill. we asked the president, how much has the government purchased? how soon before it s available for americans who need it? we also ask tonight about family gatherings this christmas. we also ask about boarding planes. should vaccines be required? the president tonight on senator joe manchin and the president s
Boosting individuals who have already been vaccinated is going to be very, very important. is the rate to get people vaccinated and boosted his own, new warnings from the centers for disease control advisory panel which is recommending pfizer and return of vaccines over johnson & johnson after reports of rare but serious blood clots in 54 cases with patients who took the one dose shot. nine of those cases were fatal. all of this as booster requirements are increasing across the u.s. with varying definitions of what fully vaccinated look like depending on where you live or work. some universities announcing that they will be scaling back activities and moving final exams online including cornell, princeton, nyu. definitely a good decision. i am a senior. my friends are 21. people have been getting sick a lot. the cdc predicting thursday there will be 1.3 million new covid cases the week of