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Lives greatly butjust recently theres been in cases in cases in shanghai, about 50 day, and more lockdowns of buildings. no doubt due to worry about party congress and dont want a big outbreak. there have been forced closing of bars, more innocuous articles deleted and also an interesting rumour and also an interesting rumour and also revealing that covid case counts may have been lowered intentionally by the government so as to not cause an automatic uptick across lockdown after the party congr...

Into the case counts that we see right now. is it your sense that people are still using those tests? >> anecdotally yes. i think certainly among my friends and colleagues, absolutely its the case. look, there is not a time to take the foot off the gas pedal. were still losing 400 to 500 americans a day. covid-19 is still the third or fourth leading killer of americans, and were heading into later in the fall. we might be experiencing another new wave. and so i think, you know, congress is getti...

Date has case rates at the highest theyve been in months, even though home testing means that new cases are even vastly undercounted. hospitalizations are also on the rise in many areas. look at this map and sadly, so are deaths. the u.s. is seeing between 300 and 400 per day. in l.a. county officials are considering a return to indoor mask mandates as their case counts rise. joining me now with more on the latest strain of covid dr. anthony fauci, director of the national instuitute of allergy ...

Washington, dc, and almost 5,000 cases in almost 50 countries. there have been more cases in certain states. so the states with the highest case counts are california, new york, illinois, florida, and dc. so those will be among the states that will really be targeted for this offer of monkeypox vaccine and lets take a look at who is at highest risk and whos recommended to get a monkeypox vaccine. if your sexual partner has been diagnosed with monkeypox, the cdc said we recommend you get the vacc...

Joins us now. elizabeth, what does that mean? >> what it means is that the cdc is now recommending a vaccine for some people after theyve been exposed to monkeypox. so victor, alisyn, its a little bit different than the covid vaccine and others that we discussed because in this case its after you have been exposed to the virus. lets go ahead and look at those statistics again. as you mentioned, we have about 300 cases in 27 states in the u.s. so far, and weve got about 5,000 cases in about 50 co...

>> reporter: you dont need to be a scientist to understand omicron is all of the covid out there in the united states. we all know someone that had it. theed if of experts is saying, hey, lets have a vaccine for the fall that will include omicron. so what its looking like is it will be a vaccine that protection specifically tailored to omicron as well as the vaccine that we have all been getting over the past two years or so. >> lets talk about monkey pox as well. the white house is beefing up i...

An increase in COVID-19 cases in Massachusetts is leading some health experts to call for a return to mask mandates.

Keep down case counts. if we start saying what we value is reducing hospitalizations and severe disease, we may need to think about changing some of our isolation guidelines and focus on protecting the most vulnerable. and also getting treatments to people. so instead of just focused on preventing infections, how do we prevent severe illness. if there is a surge in infection, we surge treatment, testing and other things, other tools we actually have readily available now. >> a conversation that ...

Reporting health officials in the states most populous county, the city of portland, now asking people to wear masks indoors until case counts start to fall. multnomah county has been averaging about 350 new cases per day. that is up from less than 100 early last month. oregons governor ended the statewide mask mandate back in march. >> the san diego union tribune features a front page story about a federal appeals court triking down a california law that bans people under the age of 21 from buy...

Lets get important perspective from the associate dean at the brown university school of public health. also an emergency room physician. grateful to see you. sad the occasion that the president is marking. lets look at where we are now and look forward before i look back at the tragic number were talking about. heres the case map now. weve talked a lot over the last two and a half years of this. and the case map even though theyre starting from a lower baseline is in terrible territory. the cas...