From Washington: New Year, Same Agenda

The Fox News Rundown

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🗓️ 2 January 2022

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Summary

2021 ended with a record-breaking rise in COVID-19 cases across the United States, as well as new guidance from the CDC on quarantine length. Medical Director at CityMD & FOX News Medical Contributor Dr. Janette Nesheiwat discusses these new changes. A new year brings the same agenda for Democrats in Congress. The Senate will meet this week to pick up right where they left off with votes on a voting rights bill and Build Back Better. FOX News Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram shares the possible strategies Democrats will use to win over Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV). Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.9	Sunday, January 2nd, 2022.
0:22.2	I'm Jared Halper. A record setting week for COVID cases is the
0:26.7	CDC resets guidance.
0:29.0	I think the reason why they did it is to help reduce the economic strain.
0:34.0	And the new year brings an old agenda for Democrats in Congress.
0:38.6	They have 13 months basically from when they passed it until early January of
0:44.2	2023 to advance this.
0:46.9	That's a lot of time.
0:48.4	This is the Fox News rundown from Washington. 2021 ends with the US breaking records for cases of COVID-19. This last week
1:11.8	cases average 265,000 per day topping previous
1:16.4	records from earlier this year before vaccines were widely available. But this
1:21.3	week the White House COVID response team signaled some improving trends.
1:24.8	Hospitalizations, for instance, are not on pace with the rise in cases.
1:29.1	An indication Dr. Anthony Fauchy says that the omicron strain is not as severe as delta and the rate of
1:34.9	those ending up in the hospital is much higher for those not vaccinated.
1:39.6	Then there was this, a major shift in how long the CDC says you should isolate after a positive
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