tom, what does the white house want us to know? that they expect to sign a contract next week for these 500 million at-home tests. they ve been criticized for shortages of tests. they re hoping this will warm up what has been a really bitter winter in many american households and at the white house, too. as the pandemic blizzard sweeps the country with an average of more than a quarter million new cases a day, another storm is engulfing the centers for disease control. facing sharp questions over its new dpguidelines. it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. the recommendation of five instead of ten isolation days for those testing positive but showing no symptoms then five days of masking, is aimed at people keeping working, but it s raising alarms, too. there is absolutely no data that i m aware about with the omicron that people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with the virus. nothing in t