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They havent moved tonight but i would anticipate we hear something in a matter, certainly of weeks, if not days from -- from the supreme court. >> and, kaitlan, if the vaccine mandates are struck down, either completely or in part, what is the next step for the administration? >> i think it is a really tough one for them, anderson, because one of the most aggressive steps that you saw president biden take when it came to that period in september, when the delta wave had swept across the u.s. and...

But our hospitalizations are still being driven by the delta wave. and we believe thats true because we know that hospitalizations tend to lag behind the acute rise in cases. so, right now, most of our hospitalizations reflect delta, lots of patients, at the same time, our staff are being hit by omicron and all of the other reasons from this seasonal flu and things like that, that will keep them from working. it is for us, almost a double pandemic. and thats really the challenge. keeping people ...

Of cases. >> it is more relevant to focus on the hospitalizations as opposed to the total number of cases. dr. anthony fauci yesterday offering a really helpful framing as we confront this latest covid wave, right? the point hes making is that the case numbers, its worth watching, but they may not be the most consequential thing right now, if most of the cases were getting with this omicron wave are cases in which people arent getting particularly sick. i mean, with this new wave of covid infect...

Experts with the nfl most successful and richest league in the world. the nfl is saying if you are asymptomatic, there is no reason to test, number one, if you do have the virus, you cant spread it thats according to the nfl chief medical officer they concluded asymptomatic people do not spread the virus. giving players a chance to test out way before 10 days is what they want. they had 154 players testing positive over the last two weeks. so they have a huge issue, the nba, a huge issue, but th...

Although in south africa, for example, which has a lower vaccination rate than the u.s. theres also a lot of seropref lens. a lot of people had covid. coming off a huge delta wave. those combine for some sort of patchwork of immunity wall, right? >> exactly. for sure. >> dr. spencer, let me ask you, we talked to you throughout this pandemic. youve worked all over the world in very intense situations of viral outbreaks. you were a doctor during the ebola crisis. you were in new york during this f...

Ask your doctor about fasenra. all right. take a look at this. this is a chart that shows covid hospitalizations in our country right now, and this isnt case numbers. this is people who wind up in the hospital with covid. you can see the first big bump. thats when the u.s. hit our peak for covid hospitalizations a year ago. thats january of last year. the second big bump, that was the delta wave that filled hospitals last fall. and now look at the spike on the right side of your screen? that i...

That we are in for unprecedented times. joining us now is dr. ashish jha, he is the dean of public health. doctor, thank you for being here as always. >> thank you for having me back rachel. >> am i looking at this the right way? i felt like it to great comfort from the early numbers out of new york city when they started seeing their case numbers skyrocket and they didnt see hospitalization numbers rise in parallel. i feel like those numbers, which i have been looking at ever since, in every ju...

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....

People we is can help the most. that means let something people die that we might have been able to help, but were not sure, theyre too far gone with an injury, or maybe we cant get to that trauma that came in. its that gray zone in between. what the take is, if we have too many more covid patients or losing too many of our staff to being sick with covid. >> yeah. this actually in the first time that your region has been hit hard by covid, as weve seen all over the country, these variants come i...

From orlando to charlotte and we got a notification that our flight from charlotte to munich had been cancelled. completely out of the blue. had no idea what was going on. we got no prior notice and we went ahead and, you know, we ran to the ticket counter and asked what to do and they said the best thing we could do still get on the flight to charlotte because our luggage was still being sent there on the aeroplane. the flight tracking firm flightaware has said more than 2,000 christmas eve fli...