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Than last falls delta wave. even as new cases begin to decline. the weekly average for deaths grew to over 2500 per day. the highest since february the 12th of 2021. in some states, such as alaska, louisiana, tennessee and florida, fatalities have been increasing by more than 100% or more over the past two weeks. as of this morning, the united states has surpassed over 74 million cases and more than 866,000 lives have been lost since the pandemic began. meanwhile, in an ironic twist of fate, a 5...

Minutes after the opening bell on wall street, markets are up. nearly 300 points there. great news on the u.s. economy. part of that, the latest gdp report says that last year the economy grew at the fastest rate since 1984, and also key in these numbers, a big uptick in the fourth quarter from the third quarter when we saw the delta variant tampering down economic growth. >> it is as if the economy just plowed through the delta wave. really impressive numbers here. cnn chief business correspond...

With low vaccinations are gonna experience -- over the past two winters. this about is about whats gonna happen in the future versus whats gonna happen in the immediate term. having said that, its good for all your viewers to listen out there. especially those who havent gotten their kids vaccinated a. lot of parents havent got on. that pediatric hospitalizations as of today, in icu, but peachy after hospitalizations are still at 500 hospitalizations a day. thats double, joy, thats doubled in th...

For doctor or a nurse _ or anybody talking to patients. its understood the policy is now being reconsidered with a view in government that the landscape has changed because the 0micron variant has not proved as serious as the delta wave, during which the policy was first drawn up. ministers will meet today to decide whether to continue with the plan. its understood no final decisions have yet been made. the risk is that nhs chiefs, whove tried to defend it will feel undermined by any u—turn, a...

Following the science as far as you could go with a society youre governing? >> so, i do think its a combination of both at some level, chuck. thanks for having me on to help discuss this. you know, i think what we recognize is you commented on the number of pieces we have now relative to delta. what we know is that at the time the delta wave was hitting, many of our children were not vaccinated yet. and in connecticut, we have a highly vaccinated population with the omicron variant, which is a ...

Plan for going back to life without covid causing major disruptions but saying that we are not there, yet. what measure would you be looking for that weve entered endemic phase, rather than being in a pandemic? >> well, i think the first thing we want to see is this omicron wave, don, go way down to the point where it was before it started. um, as the delta wave had really descended in the south. so, you know, were -- were only about halfway down, and its unclear whether itll get stuck there for...

Omicron without more global vaccine justice, but it would have stacked the deck in our favour, stacking the deckin the deck in our favour, stacking the deck in humanitys favour against the virus. so we shouldnt be scrabbling around thinking in these narrow terms of narrow national interest. it is of international human interest to make sure these are distributed in the right way. most people will notjust be motivated by selfish interest, they will have seen the terrible scenes in india around th...

Of kids being vaccinated. so i really think a lot of it depends on what the parents do and what the kids do. if we get our kids vaccinated and plenty of vaccine ability, well get closer to roll out a lot of restrictions. >> just out this hour, in the journal jama n, largest study wh kids. top line is that 6.1% of kids who tested positive were hospitalized. that didnt seem to change, they found, through the delta wave. what does this study tell you? >> what the study tells us, of the million kids...

To see some restrictions reduces. >> jim bittermann joining us live from paris. many thanks. well, denmark is expected to lift all its covid restrictions on tuesday. health officials say they are confident about making this move due to high levels of immunity there. for more on this, want to bring in dr. kamala holton in copenhagen with the institute. thank you so much for joining us. >> thanks, good morning. >> so, why does denmark think now is the right time to lift all covid restrictions? a...

Trajectory and it started last summer, july. the delta wave starts to rise and you see biden taking a plunge and you have this period here in august, this is afghanistan. so biden is dealing with something that is maybe not necessarily about his policies and you see consumer confidence going in the same direction at around exactly the same time. maybe its not about policies, maybe its about peoples perception of his leadership, his competency, something else? >> certainly this summer was not goo...