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Interest not for sort of in a general way what are they telling people to do, it is because of essential workers. we dont want to run out of doctors, dont want to run out of nurses, dont want to run out of people who keep the airlines going. lets take a look at a letter that ceo -- the ceo of delta wrote to dr. rochelle walensky, the director of the cdc. he requested that isolation for fully vaccinated people with covid-19 be shortened from 10 to 5 days. he said, of course, there should be a tes...

Now, and not enough front line employees. how are they handling this? >> sandra, its been hard not only at this hospital but hospitals across the u.s. we have hit a new milestone, a high with covid-19 hospitalizations today, but this hospital behind me last week was dealing with issues. recommendation to ambulances to bring patients to other hospitals because they were crowded. that only lasted for a couple hours, though, because the surrounding hospitals, they were dealing with the same thing. ...

Union is raising a red flag. >> lets not make a decision now that may provide some relief right now, that will have longer-term problems. what director walensky was saying there is that theres low chance. thats called comfort for the people who know that now were going to be going to work with more people who are infectious because there will be people who are still infectious who are coming to our workplace, either workers or who are being forced to come back to work frankly because there is pr...

To do is it will lead to real pressure on essential services, workers who would normally expect perhaps to be accompanied by ten or 20 colleagues on a shift might find that five out of those 20 colleagues just cannot come because they are sick or perhaps also because they have got to isolate where they have to care for someone else who are sick and so i think what i would like to say to everybody is that do everything you can to restrict what you do to the absolute essential minimum, especially ...

Bret. >> bret: okay. jacqui heinrich live on the north lawn. thanks. the cdc is changing its timeline for when people should receive their pfizer covid booster shot. the news coming amid an onslaught of criticism over the agencys shifting guidance as we have been talking about on certain recommendations. and some states see a sharp rise in covid hospitalizations this week. correspondent jonathan serrie has the story from atlanta. home of the cdc. >> although most omicron cases are relatively mil...

England and wales. so those are the latest figures and you can see also the figures there for vaccinations and total of 51 first dose vaccinations and 47 million second dose at 3a million in terms of the third or boosterjab. a critical incident has been declared at hospitals in lincolnshire because of covid—related staff shortages. the situation has been described as extreme and unprecedented by the nhs trust that runs them. it says essential services remain open. 0ur correspondent danny savag...

What are the hospital authorities saying? well, that critical incident was declared here across the link a sure hospital trust on saturday night. that includes this big hospital here, one in boston and one in grantham as well. it means that they felt they did not have enough staff to safely cover all bases, as it were. they have given an update today saying that all essential services are fine and if you need to come to hospital you should do so. itjust underlines the fact come to hospital you s...

Other folks who would stay home. so if you find someone in conversation who sounds cavalier about this inflation, theres a good deal that were not worried about it driving them into dent. billionaires are doing even better with a pandemic windfall estimated around $200 mill. this in equal inflation crisis is the context for a challenge that faces the biden administration. >> everything from a gallon of gas to a loaf of bread costs more and its worrisome. >> the american people will see costs red...

Staff absence is due covid—19 at the moment, but they say in spite of the challenges, essential services are fully open. now, of course, it is a bank holiday here today, so it is fairly quiet around the hospital. most of the normal outpatient services would not be functioning as they normally would be on a working week day. a&e is open of course. ambulances are coming and going, but that seems to be effectively running as it would do normally at the moment. albeit with long waiting times that ...

Clusters of infection. in the city of xian, level 2 lock down, the whole city considered a controlled area which means schools, public transportation are closed. all but essential services are stopped. that means that in every household, just one designated person can go out to get groceries once every two days and otherwise, unless theres a medical emergency, you have to stay inside. all of this affecting 13 million people for just over 200 confirmed cases, state media saying 30,000 of their cl...