virus. i have said before, i m not going to shut down the economy. i m going to shut down the virus. lawrence: good job with that one, joe. nearly a full year into new administration and things are only getting worse. under biden s daily covid cases are surged among their highest levels in the pandemic with nearly 500,000 cases a day. so, what is the administration plan to combat the surge? to push more of the same failed policies? more masks? more mandates? how about more vaccines? the biden team is already floating the idea of a fourth shot saying quote it is conceivable in the future we may need an additional shot but right now we already we are hoping that we will get a greater degree of durability of protection from that booster shot. they are hoping that. they don t know if the science supports that and while the biden white house is focused on vaccines, americans are asking where are our tests joe? this weekend thousands of people across the country waited in lon
lines and in airports plagued by delays and cancellations from winter weather and staffing from covid issues. we have fox team coverage tonight. rich edson at reagan national international airport virginia where omicron surge and winter weather. a lot of snow in washington continued to cause chaos. jacqui heinrich at the white house where it appears the purchase of 500 million covid test kits has still not come to fruition. we begin with jonathan serrie in atlanta. good evening, jonathan. good evening, bret. for now it appears the expansion of the fda s emergency use authorization applies only to boosters manufactured by pfizer. the cdc director rochelle walensky is expected to sign off on the plan later this week. the fda s announcement comes as many students return to school from holiday break. under the plan everyone 12 and old we re qualify for fires booster as soon as five months after completing primary doses. some immunocompromised children would also qualify for
Services as the snow storm has reached havoc in the backyard a special report chainsaw brit i could borrow. brit: maybe. so all right, brit, bring it home here. chicago teacher learning will support in person learning as long as all teachers and students wear gas masks. bret: thank you. that s it for this special report, fair balanced and unafraid. fox news primetime hosted by lawrence jones. lawrence: good evening. i m lawrence jones and welcome to 2022. it might be a new year but the same covid problems are still crippling our country. by now it has become painfully obvious the white house has no plan on how to handle this crisis. even know joe promised us over a year ago he had everything under control. watch. i m going to shut down the virus. i m not going to shut down the economy. i m going to shut down the
Establish a new cold war, it seems like, where russia has a sphere of influence around it and ukraine and elsewhere with warnings to nato to stay away. this is a distressing thing. and, you know, we are not going to respond with u.s. forces if russia goes ahead and invades ukraine. and our problem is that in 2014, and in the past, the use of sanctions alone has just not been enough to deter russian aggression. a very difficult situation and one that we are watching probably the next few weeks while the ground is cold and hard, that s when we would expect the russian invasion to begin so we may know very soon what vladimir putin s intentions really are. bret: brit, the atlantic writes this about it: the u.s. is naive about russia ukraine can t afford to be. putin is right about one thing a free prosperous democratic neighbor is a threat to ice autocratic regime. i think that s a correct
Family coming in town before the holidays. they said they left the shelves in about one hour in most cvss. brit, what they did have were cloth masks. , however, we may not want those. take a listen. [laughter] brit: take a listen. this is an airborne illness. we now understand that and a cloth mask is not going to protect you from a virus that spreads through airborne transmission it could protect better through drop let transmission something like the flu but not something like this coronavirus. a surgical mask is better or a type of n 95 mask is obviously the best. you have to weigh your own risk and benefit for that i think the era of cloth masks with omicron is probably over. they don t really provide almost any protection according to the newest data. bret: brit, i think we are on our third iteration of masks and definitions of and where we are. i think we are at a stage where people are so saturated with this guidance which has been as hugh pointed out so