New CDC Guidance - Science Or Politics?

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🗓️ 8 January 2022

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

As the new COVID-19 variant surges through the nation, the CDC faces backlash over their most recent guidance, shortening the isolation period from ten days to five from an asymptomatic positive test. Former CDC Director Dr. Robert Redfield weighs in on the matter. This past week marked the one-year anniversary of the riot at the Capitol on January 6th, 2021. Since the attack, Congress has seen an increase in threats against lawmakers. FOX News Congressional Correspondent Chad Pergram reports on those threats and reveals how it has taken a toll on all of those working on Capitol Hill. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:14.9	Saturday, January 8, 2022.
0:21.7	I'm Jared Halpern. New criticism of the CDC's COVID guidance.
0:27.0	And they're doing the best, and Rochelle's doing the best that she can as the director in the political reality of where she sits.
0:35.0	In a year after the deadly riot, how safe is the U.S. Capitol?
0:40.3	This is a dangerous beat.
0:42.1	This building has a target on it. This is a dangerous beat. This building has a target on it.
0:44.0	This is the Fox News rundown from Washington. keeping up with the latest COVID cases, the guidance about isolating and for how long it can all be confusing,
1:08.0	especially at a time when Omicron variants are surging hundreds of thousands of faucetive cases cases or being recorded daily in a
1:14.7	wave not seen during this pandemic. Through it all the CDC is trying to put out a
1:19.5	message of both concern and calm and offer assurances schools and businesses can stay open.
1:26.0	Our updated recommendations for isolation and quarantine and our prior publications and continued assessment of
1:33.4	Texas State protocols in schools.
1:36.2	Provide the tools necessary to get these schools reopened for
1:39.7	in-person learning and to keep them open for the rest of the school year.
1:45.0	CDC director, Dr Rochelle Whelensky, has faced criticism this week for that new isolation
1:50.2	policy, reducing the time from 10 days to 5 after a positive test if you don't have
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