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Prison. elizabeth holmes has been found guilty of criminal fraud on 4 out of 11 total charges. senior correspondent has that story tonight. shes in san jose, california. good evening, claudia. >> jillian, this end of a verdict is a big win for the prosecution and came after the jury said it could not agree on three counts relating to whether elizabeth holmes intentionally defrauded three investors out of millions of dollars. but that still left eight counts left and thats where the jury was unan...

But it is not just cases that are rising. so is the number of people needing hospital care. even as more healthcare workers get sent home sick. teachers, as well. with millions of kids going back to school today, mostly in person but in several large school districts they have gone back to remote learn for the time being. against that backdrop, today the fda signed off on booster doses of pfizers vaccine for 12 to 15-year-olds and shortened the waiting period between second and third doses to fi...

One journalist who was there at the capitol on january 6th. plus, we will ask a former presidential speech writer about the effectiveness of president bidens speech marking one year since that insurrection. among my patients, i often see them have teeth sensitivity as well as gum issues. does it worry me? absolutely. sensodyne sensitivity & gum gives us the dual action effect that really takes care of both our teeth sensitivity as well as our gum issues. theres no question its something that i w...

Shes a professor of epidemiology at university college london, and has published a paper on the effectiveness of lateral flows. are lateral flows as good as pcr is at showing someone has covid? this is what the government is saying, the direction of travel.— the direction of travel. yes, i think they — the direction of travel. yes, i think they are _ the direction of travel. yes, i think they are better - the direction of travel. yes, i think they are better at - the direction of travel. yes...

Them you get kicked off the challenge for social media platforms is you have to try and benefit both sides and keep both sides happy and what we have seen in this conversation is a politically polarised debate, so youre damned if you do and damned if you dont. are you uncomfortable if they are taking decisions about which politicians can and cannot reach the scale that twitter offers? i think social media in general has tried to tip the scales because they can. theyre privately owned and can do ...

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Same week we have this big leap forward. and all this interesting stuff to think about and to potentially change up around all the drugs that are available right now to fight this thing. this has been a huge week in terms of case numbers, through the roof. also a huge week in terms of how we fight covid. start with the vaccines, we know now, omicron has been here long enough, we know there is still effectiveness from our vaccines against the omicron variant. but it is reduced effectiveness, so y...

Care worker will be essential in the coming weeks, but what im really worried about is what happens when more of us get sick and need to isolate at home. 20% of health care workers during south africas omicron surge fell ill and thats already starting to happen here. you know, you can only receive high quality medical care if theres enough beds and hands and supplies to go around, and so, we need everyones help and we truly are all still in this together. >> doctors, nurses, health officials are...

Regulations. they seeing in inappropriate about this. the irony, that beijing leadership has been touting the effectiveness of its zero covid policy and how it shows they put people first. this is proof of the superiority of their political system. but incidents like this expose a dark side of the covid policy, showing how local officials have little regard for human rights or human dignity in the name of covid prevention. >> steven, thank you. for a second day, covid infections in india are u...

Receipts for reimbursement to their health insurance plan. and on wednesday, theyll be able to logon to covidtest.gov to order up to four free covid tests per household. >> stephanie ramos back with us tonight. and stephanie, youre learning more about new research out of israel where they looked at the effectiveness of a fourth vaccine shot? >> reporter: exactly, whit. researchers in israel say they looked at how well a fourth dose holds up against omicron, finding that a fourth shot increased a...