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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. fi ....
u.s. more than 58% of the new cases have been determined to be omicron. that is double the percentage of just one week ago. as you mentioned, economy being hit hard. multiple states including new york, new jersey, massachusetts, hawaii, puerto rico. they re all setting records for the number of new cases in the past week. broadway shows shutting down, number of stores limited business or no business at all. goldman sachs, the bank making the case that as of february it will only allow staff and visitors in the u.s. offices who have the booster shot, not just fully vaccinated, but the booster as well. israel experimenting with a fourth covid vaccine. the experiment with about 150 medical personnel, all volunteers. they might need the vaccine for population in danger, especially the elderly. u.s. medical officials say it s too early to tell whether the u.s. will need that fourth shot. finally, colleges extending winter break. princeton university going a step further not ....
erin, you re the woman on the panel so i m curious what you watch every holiday season. first of all, merry christmas to you, tiffany, and shoutout to you for looking like a whole christmas centerpiece up here. i am loving the holiday look, honey. so look, this is an important time to remind people that diehard is 100% a christmas movie. if there is a young person who does not know that, you are failing them as a parent, grand parent, aunt. home alone and a christmas story did pair christmas with guns and violence. only in america, i guess. that s a good point. i noticed this this year and was like, hmm, maybe explains why we ve seen some folks on the twittersphere making that connection. brilliant point. but you brought up something very controversial that is diehard being a christmas movie. some people say no, some people say yes. i have to agree with you, it is a christmas movie. but i have to tell you i was talking to one of our producers who was wor ....
i had a dream that i would be here receiving something from the president but i thought it would be the front door s key. bob dole receiving the presidential medal of freedom from the man he lost the election to a couple of months earlier. we are going to remember the life of the american hero and republican statesman. first, the greatest of bob dole in stark contrast. over the weekend we got a sampling from some of the far-right s finest, first on the big lie from donald trump who once tweeted that on saturday, he admitted he lost the 2020 election or he called himself stupid releasing a statement anybody does not think there wasn t massive election fraud in the 2020 presidential election is either very stupid or very corrupt. on covid, it s marjorie taylor greene tweeted a thread comparing the virus to cancer. more than 600,000 people in the u.s. die from cancer. the country has never once shutdown. not a single school has closed. every year, people of all ages ....
anyone boarding an international flight to the u.s. must ve received a negative covid test no longer one day before takeoff. this applies to everyone 2 years of age and older, both u.s. citizens and those who are fully vaccinated. let s get right to cnn s nadia romero in atlanta. what else do we need to know about these new travel restrictions? we have to realize that this is all very fluid, meaning that these travel restrictions could change. we could see more restrictions or fewer restrictions in the coming days or weeks. and we re hearing that from dr. anthony fauci and from dr. rochelle walensky over cdc. they say that we just don t have enough data to really know all we need to know about omicron and its spread, how transmissible it is. so as that data comes in, the biden administration says this is their best bet. this is what they believe that they need to do, which is why they enacted this new travel policy that will take effect tomorrow for international trav ....