already from china. we ll have much more on that in just a moment. but we re also keeping an eye on the pentagon where in just minutes, top leaders will hold a press conference. this question of military intervention in taijuan, it s very likely to be raised. we ll bring that to you when it begins. president biden is also formally answering an indy pacific trade pact. a lot to get to this hour. let s get started. cnn s jeremy diamond is live in tokyo. jeremy, what are you hearing from administration, from the white house about the president s comments in taijuan? reporter: well, listen, a white house official almost immediately after the president made those comments at a news conference saying that quote, as the president said our policy has not changed and yet, if you listen to the president s words directly, he very much does seem to be tossing away the u.s. s decades long foreign policy of strategic ambiguity as it relates to taijuan and the question of whether or not
very long time who i talked to over the weekend who are surprised how many cases are emer emerging. what do you think? well, i think we have to keep this in prospective. it is still a relatively small number of cases both suspected and confirmed. you re talking about 200 cases globally, at least half of them in portugal and spain and the you h u.k. and a dozen in canada and three cases in the united states. so when you re in early stage of an outbreak or epidemic, you like to be cautious and not overly pessimistic or overly optimistic. this virus also had a much longer incubation period meaning there is a lag between the time you re infected and by the time you start being you actually show signs and symptoms often roughly two weeks. we ll have to see if the number of cases starts increasing
kid have to vaccinated and she and kids around her have to wear masks. let me ask you about pfizer and beginning this trial of omicron specific vaccines. some have two shots who are boosted. some have no shots at all. and to see if it s effective. by the time it gets through that trial and then potentially to emer emerging, will it be too late for omicron. s we know this wave will have passed by the time of the trial results. is an omicron specific vaccine targeting those three clusters of mutations on the spike p protein? will that have potential against
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