president and ceo of resolve to save lives. dr. freeden, great to have you on. the cdc is now cutting the quarantine time from ten days to five days. the new york times notes the following. quoting here. what do you think? is it important to test negative before you leave quarantine? did the cdc make a mistake here? let s step back and ask where we are. we re in a very different time. the omicron virus is enormously infectious. it s spreading like wild fire. it s not a wave. it s a flash flood. what that might do is make it difficult for airlines to operate, schools to operate, businesses to operate. and the data is showing that it spreads faster, not just spreads more, but spreads faster. most of that spread will happen a day or two before you feel sick and the first day or two after you feel sick. very up likely to happen after that. could you say in an ideal world, everyone would get a test before they come out. yeah, it s easy to criticize, hard to do better. first of
game, placing some of it on former president trump. despite all the warnings of a surge, he admitted his administration was cut off by a micron and the lack of test gillian: fox team coverage starts out now. for step, wall street journal s james freeman. and we ve got senior national correspondent rich edson with the president in rehoboth beach, delaware. hi, rich. good afternoon, gillian. a short while ago president biden signed a proclamation reversing that travel ban from several african nations because of a micron. it s been in effect for about a month. it goes out of effect on friday. the president justified this by saying that he wanted that travel ban to give the u.s. some time to learn more about a micron and prepare for its arrival. part of that was a meeting yesterday at the white house. the president convened a virtual meeting with several of the nation s governors. it was a bipartisan meeting where he touted his administration s work this year expanding test
Maybe we should head over there after the show today. thanks to everybody at home for joining us. mike, great to be with you. gillian, i m enjoyed it very much. mike emanuel. the story with trace gallagher starts right now. thanks. i m trace gallagher in for martha maccallum for the story. where is the outrage for the covid testing chaos? we asked dr. brett giroir when the administration was scorched for their failure to do more. now if you get covid, you could be back in action in half the time. the cdc is reducing the recommended quarantine for people that reduce positive from ten day to five days as long as they have no symptoms and keep wearing a mask for five more days. the cdc says the signs show most transmission happens early in the illness. so let s bring in former cdc director dr. tom freeden, and
Nice lady. good social worker. ran new jersey. no technical competence in december. there s no testing coordinator until january until when another one will come in. in the midst of a pandemic, we don t have a fda commissioner and no testing coordinator. there no account ability whatsoever. trace: and it wasn t just the media. ron klain, the chief of staff, said in june of 2020, i ve been saying since martha we can t beat covid with the articles of response. if trump won t use it to beat in killer disease, i know someone starting on 1-20-21. that someone that will yesterday said there s no such thing as a federal solution to this. your thoughts. our model is a traditional model. federally supported, state led. that s how the response goes. biden is learning that this campaign slogan that he promises don t hold any water.
Much immunity. we don t know how many people will be hospitalized and die from it. better safe than sorry. vaccinate, boost and mask up indoors when you re around other people. very good point. thanks, doctor. we appreciate it. thank you. my next guest points out the record-breaking number of new cases in places like new york city is higher when you account for people taking at-home tests without reporting the results. let s bring in dr. spencer, director of emergency medicine at new york presbyterian, columbia medical center and an ebola survivor. if the number is higher, is that a good thing, doctor? that s a good question. as the doctor said, this isn t necessarily a tidal wave. this is a flash flood. it seems to be that covid is everywhere. in my hospital, out on the streets, amongst any friends who text me every day, family,