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Case counts across California have dropped steadily since the middle of December after seeing an increase in November. Other COVID-19 metrics have also improved since December. The state did not see a record-setting spike in infections or surge in hospitalizations.

Case counts across California have dropped steadily since the middle of December after seeing an increase in November. Other COVID-19 metrics have also improved since December. The state did not see a record-setting spike in infections or surge in hospitalizations.

Effective against the omicron variants and they have limited hospital and icu capability. and they have the people, as ivan and you just discussed, theyre dying to see their families. theyre going to get together, theyre going to hug each other. and the lunar new year. so its a perfect storm right now, paula. >> in terms of how this will impact the rest of the world this is the last frontier in terms of covid restrictions. a lot has been made that china is not releasing case counts but surveilla...

Welcome both. whats the thinking on the white house decision to require these tests from china? >> there are really two concerns that public health officials and people in the biden administration are trying to address with these new rules. fsts china has scaled back, the case counts are rising. all travelers from china will be required to provide that negative test from within the previous 48 hours. its not just travelers from china. also travelers through seoul, south korea, toronto and vancou...

Professor anne rimoin from ucla fielding school of public health told me why she was concerned about chinas recent surge in covid cases. i think the issue here is that we dont have a lot of data coming out of china right now. we dont have case counts, we dont have good mortality data, and we certainly dont have good sequencing data that could tell us a lot about what variants are circulating and what we could expect. i think the idea of requiring testing, which will allow us to have an idea of w...

Thank you forjoining us. as the us considers bringing in restrictions for people coming from china, how concerned do you for people coming from china, how concerned do you think for people coming from china, how concerned do you think we for people coming from china, how concerned do you think we should for people coming from china, how concerned do you think we should be? i think the issue here is that we dont have a lot of data coming out of china right now. we dont have case counts, we dont h...

Appearing to be extremely dangerous for hundreds of millions plus people across china. look, were seeing the chaos play off with the change of the reporting structure, it will now be china cdc that is updating the covid case counts. it remains to be seen if it will truly be daily. but what is interesting is earlier today china cdc reported that there were only zero covid related deaths in the last six days leading up to sunday which runs counter to some of the data coming from from other cities ...

Hi, charles. >> reporter: hey, eric. look, yeah, l.a.s county department of public health has not definitively said that a mask mandate will be restored, but it is seeing troubling numbers that could the lead public health officials many that direction, and this is what theyre talking about. take a look at this. l.a. county currently averaging more than 3,000 daily new covid infections, that is a 44% increase from the week prior and more than three times the cases the county was recording at the...

You know, just recently, theres been an uptick in cases in shanghai — about 50 per day — and thereve been more lockdowns of buildings, no doubt due to worry about the party congress and, you know, dont want a big outbreak. there have been forced closing of bars, more moderating on social media and innocuous articles deleted, and also an interesting rumour and i think inaudible revealing covid case counts may have been lowered intentionally by the government so as to not cause embarrassment a...

The speech. we were looking for moves on zero covid policy which affects our lives greatly. you know, just recently, theres been an uptick in cases in shanghai — about 50 per day — and thereve been more lockdowns of buildings, no doubt due to worry about the party congress and, you know, dont want a big outbreak. there have been forced closing of bars, more moderating on social media and innocuous articles deleted, and also an interesting rumour and i think is flase is revealing covid case c...