go to operationsmile.org today and become a monthly supporter. help create new smiles and new futures. but act now. children are waiting. go online to operationsmile.org to give monthly or call. (upbeat music) back now to the other big news of the day, the sfik in covid cases w wreath, i m sure you have seen it today on a roller coaster ride spiraling on fears that omicron will lead to more shutdowns and dampen economic recovery. the dow is down. just a couple of minutes to the close. the markets reacting to the surge in case. you can see that spike here with a lot of folks having concerns over where this gose next. we have president biden set to
with and is briefed by regularly, then he s looking to them for that guidance. as you know, they haven t changed that guidance to date, but given the spread of omicron, given the trans miss transmisib omicron, this is something they can look forward to in the next couple months and an update of what he and his administration are going to do more. given cases are going to continue to rise? i think dr. fauci has discussed that as well. as you know, josh, i think some of it depends as they have both, i believe, spoken to on the steps taken by people in this country to get vaccinated, to take necessary precautions, but
kid is in school now and you probably know this and i know this, and they have a close contact typically they have to quarantine or be out of school, and there have been health experts who recommended there can be a contact tracing and testing regimen that can allow kids to stay in school, and that is very intriguing to the president and that is what our focus is on. with regard to the speech tomorrow, the president has spoken with his health advisors at the cdc on whether they need to change their guidance in particular. we re seeing a lot of breakthrough cases with vaccinated people who aren t boosted, and he said if you are fully vaccinated, you don t have to isolate. can we substantially overhaul these issues for the omicron variant? i think the president s view is that if that is the guidance and the belief of his health and medical experts, who he engages
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that is what you should be doing if tough cold or the sniffels, reaching for rapid test. there is an attitude i am sure you have heard that s encapsulated from an infectious disease experts who said omicron will spread so quickly making it impossible to contain even with stringent measures. there is an attitude that seems to be well, we are all going to get it, doesn t matter, right? people who live with somebody who is immunocompromised, who live with somebody unable to get the vaccine because they are too young might say i don t accept that assessment. what is your assessment on this? i am glad you brought that up, again and again you hear two of the three messages that i would love to hear in the situation. the first message is look, the vaccines are protecting us, the boosters are doing their job, protecting from severe disease. the second message you are getting is how bad things are for people who are unvaccinated or people who are vulnerable or whose immunity may be waning wit