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york. thanks so much for getting an early start with us. i m laura jarrett. and i m paula reid in for christine romans. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. we have reports from los angeles, moscow, bough jing, delaware, rome and mexico city. basically everywhere. welcome to early start. paula, so nice to have you again today. we begin with a major change when it comes to how we live with the virus and frankly each other. the cdc has officially shortened its recommendation time isolation time for people who test positive with covid. instead of staying away from each other ten days, the cdc says stay home for just five days if and this is key here if you are asymptomatic by day five. the agency says this change is driven by data that shows most covid transmission is actually happening one to two days before someone has symptoms and in the two to three days after. it also comes as businesses across the country fashion the strain ....
i m john avlon with kaitlan collins. and we begin with the cdc cutting the recommended isolation period for many infected americans in half. the agency now reducing the number of days from 10 to 5 if you are asymptomatic. the cdc also is now recommending the same amount of time for vaccinated people to quarantine if they are exposed to the virus with no quarantine at all if you are boost. tr dr. anthony fauci says it is part of an effort to get people back to work faster amid major concerns about staffing shortages at hospitals, airlines and businesses because of the omicron surge. president biden is now grappling with the failure that could have been foreseen as the omicron wave has exposed shortages in the u.s. and access to testing. many frustrated americans are now waiting in long lines for tests if they can get them at all. speaking to governors on monday, the president conceded that steps he took to scale up testing capacity weren t enough to meet the demand. ....
dose. the changes are part of an effort to prevent further disruptions to daily life. it comes as the omicron variant is leading to a major surge across america. the u.s. is now averaging 237,000 new cases a day, approaching the all-time high of 251,000 last january. hospitalizations continue to climb, now 71,000. pandemic hospitalization records in four states have hit their all-time peak. and the number of americans killed by covid is nearing 1,500 a day. cnn s elizabeth cohen joining us now to explain these new cdc guidelines. i have to say, elizabeth, i had to read those guidelines four to five times. i think i understand much of it, but i m really glad you re here to make sense of it for us. reporter: and they are so confusing. i read them over way more than that, talked to my producer, called one of cnn s mad cal analysts. he didn t know the answer. the v he got someone else. all of us got together. these are difficult to understand. it s unfortunate that the cd ....
of joe biden. it s not a gaffe or speculation, according to almost every poll from gallup to reuters and everything in between, approval for joe biden has dropped significantly in the last year. just today, rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll showed 58% of americans disapprove of joe biden s performance as president. according to our recent pbs poll, a meager 29% of independents approve of joe biden. you d be hard-pressed to find a majority of any demographic group that thinks joe biden is doing a good job. even cnn recently conceded that biden s low poll numbers are not an exception for biden at this point but rather the rule. it s hard to say on any given day of joe biden is aware of his low poll numbers. on some days, he doesn t seem to even know he s the president. but on the rare day joe biden is mentally present, poll numbers are in something he pays attention to. how much do you pay attention to approval ratings? not anymore. [laughter] not joking. [ap ....
according to almost every poll from gallup to reuters and everything in between, approval for joe biden has dropped significantly in the last year. just today, rasmussen daily presidential tracking poll showed 58% of americans disapprove of joe biden s performance as president. according to our recent pbs poll, a meager 29% of independents approve of joe biden. you d be hard-pressed to find a majority of any demographic group that thinks joe biden is doing a good job. even cnn recently conceded that biden s low poll numbers are not an exception for biden at this point but rather the rule. it s hard to say on any given day of joe biden is aware of his low poll numbers. on some days, he doesn t seem to even know he s the president. but on the rare day joe biden is mentally present, poll numbers are in something he pays attention to. how much do you pay attention to approval ratings? not anymore. [laughter] not joking. [applause] i was checking in the mid 60s, not th ....