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vaccinated can hug grandkids who have not. the rules dont go far enough for some. the airline industry which today pushed back on cdc guidance that recommends even the vaccinated avoid travel. >> every time there is a surge in travel, we have a surge of cases in this country. many of our variants have emerged from international places and we know the travel corridor is a place where people are mixing a lot. >> the guidelines state that people including those fully vaccinated should con...

case in point, the airline industry which today pushed back on cdc guidance that recommends even the vaccinated avoid travel. this was the cdc directors explanation for why. >> every time there is a surge in travel, we have a surge of cases in this country. we know that many of our variants have emerged from international places and we know that the travel corridor is a place where people are mixing a lot. >> the guidelines state that people including those fully vaccinated should cont...

To meet on september 12th to talk about recommending the covid vaccines for the fall. that always happens after the fda has signed off on these. so thats expected to happen around the same time. and once the cdc director accepts the recommendation, these will starts to become available. were talking about perhaps that week around september 12th, by the end of that week folks can start going out to their pharmacies. these updated vaccines target a single strain of one of the more recent circulati...

Health officials in Washington and Oregon said Thursday that a fall and winter COVID surge is likely headed to the Pacific Northwest after months of relatively low case levels.

American life continue as much as normally as possible, even with case levels really exponentially growing, as youve been indicating. they also want to make sure theyre doing everything by the science. this is an administration that has always said theyre following the science. walensky has been stressing throughout the day that this five-day isolation period rather than ten days is something thats a result of that balancing test. because we know the symptoms and transmissibility tends to occur ...

Rising at a much slower rate. i guess thats some good news here, right? >> thats right and yes, we are at record high new cases throughout the pandemic. new case levels have exceeded that as we saw last winter but similar to what south africa continues to report, we are seeing reduction in clinical -- in the -- the number dropped to 14% during the delta wave and less than 5% with omicron with a population that has a less than 40% vaccination rate. in the united states were seeing the same thing....

Think about relying on those policies around masking, testing, increasing vaccinations, to get those case levels under control right now. >> youre talking about two to three weeks as a lagging indicator for the number of hospitalizations, dr. blackstock. have we gotten to two to three weeks? it feels like weve been dealing with this for some time. we announced it or learned of it back on thanksgiving, announced the first few cases here in the united states, just a few days later. >> right, so th...

That, are you giving guidance to people about those settings? we will still be recommending _ people about those settings? we will still be recommending that _ people about those settings? we will still be recommending that people i still be recommending that people wear face covering if they can. the law will not require them to that any more. its still about people moving from a place where the law requires people to do things to moving to guidance and asking people to exercisejudgment. in mov...

A small fall in covid—19 cases again in wales, we think we can safely do this and the choices that the government is making here in wales are supported by the public health guidelines we have received from our chief medical officer as well. so it is it managed, its a gradual and its a careful move to get us out of the public protection measures and to make sure we do not see a return to covid—19 and the harm that it has caused and the stratospheric case levels we saw at the turn of the year....

At our next review, whether the remaining protections can safely be removed from the end of march. so we have got a pathway, so, hopefully, seeing the end of covid—i9, seeing it properly in the rear—view mirror. and it is still about people moving from a place where the law requires people to do things to move into guidance and asking people to exercisejudgment. now, with all of these things, there is, of course, a balance. but because of a relatively stable public health position, because w...