billion at-home covid texts next week to help americans through the pandemic blizzard sweeping the land. but another storm is engulfing the centers for disease control facing sharp questioning over new guidelines for covid-weary americans. it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. reporter: recommendation of five instead of ten isolation days for those testing positive but showing no symptoms, then five days of masking, is aimed at keeping people working, but it s raising alarms, too. there is absolutely no data that i am aware of with the omicron. people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with the virus. nothing in the guidelines mandates testing for these people and the administration has been harshly criticized for the current shortage of tests. so the lack of testing in the new recommendations is also drawing fire even as top health
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challenged. to that point, new cases are now averaging nearly 300,000 a day. a new cdc forecast out late today predicts more than 44,000 new deaths are possible over the next four weeks. yes, 44,000. meantime, testing remains hard to come by. former hhs official, rick bright, on cnn this evening compared it to the hunger games and as people scramble to get tested ahead of new year s eve and holiday flights back home, schools in some of the hardest-hit areas are laying out new guidelines. it is a lot. cnn s tom foreman starts us off. reporter: schools in d.c. will require all students and staff to have negative covid tests to come back to class. new york city will require rigorous testing, too. all that, as the white house says it expects to sign a contract for a half-billion at-home covid tests next week. and as the centers for disease control faces sharp questioning over new guidelines for covid-weary americans.
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national guard is being deployed for more health care workers. now, with omicron in the mix, new forecasting from the centers of disease control updates 44,000 new covid deaths over the next month. tom foreman has our lead story this hour. reporter: schools in d.c. will require all students and staff to have negative covid tests to come back to class. new york city will require rigorous testing, too. all that as the white house says it plans to sign a contract for a 500 million at-home covid tests next week. as the center for disease control faces sharp questions for new guidelines for covid-weary americans. it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. reporter: the recommendation of five instead of ten isolation days for those testing positive but not showing no symptoms, then five days of masking, is aimed at keeping people working. but it s raising alarms, too. there s absolutely no data
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