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Rising side of the graph. the hope is well peak very soon and see a fall in cases. the important thing, of course, is to see what impact all this infection is having on hospitalizations and severe disease. >> i know the data has been mixed on that. what do you take from the data we have so far? >> yeah, im just looking at whats happening in the uk. i think the general consensus is, of course, the infection with omicron is milder than de delta. but wen you have such high levels of infections, you...

Not just how many people will be infected. its apparently mammoth numbers. a large portion of those infections being ones in which people dont get too terribly sick. the real consequence, hes saying, the real question of consequence is whether our health care system can hold, especially after two years of being bludgeoned by this virus. thats why the nations top infectious disease doctor is telling us, right now in particular, to watch the hospitalization rates, not just the case numbers. and wh...

Far right side of the graph. look how steep that line is climbing at the right side of the graph. thats how fast our covid infection numbers are rising right now as a country. that is a terribly steep line. that is terrible. but today was also a really good day. the fda today approved the first covid treatment pill. its a five-day course of pills from pfizer. if you take it right after the start of covid symptoms, it can drop your chances of having to be hospitalized by nearly 90%. huge news. hu...

Available so in some ways this is a form of triage. let me show you the guidelines just to be clear what they are now telling people who are testing positive for covid. stay -- stay home for at least five days. your isolation can end if symptoms are gone or resolving. wear a mask around others for five more days but the new things they added to that, again, as you mentioned. optional antigen test around day five and if positive, isolate for -- for a full-ten days. that -- that -- it may not be d...

A stunning gap. >> two different worlds there. in the meantime, the testing shortage does remain problematic. the white house says the first of 500 million free covid-19 tests will start arriving for distribution early next week. officials are working through distribution timelines. they say that americans will be able to start ordering the tests online later this month. starting saturday, health insurers have to cover at-home covid tests without co-pays and deductibles. insurers will be require...

Foreign affairs, when all that was falling, his handling of covid was the tent pole. public approval was the tent pole holding up the job approval rating and now it has gone down. i think what you are seeing here is the white house, for example, is trying to tell us to look differently at things. with covid cases skyrocketing, we are hearing talk about maybe cases, the number of cases is not the best measurement of this. with hospitalizations, you are hearing people say we need to distinguish be...

The next few weeks will be tough. >> reporter: after christmas nationwide we were averaging 200,000 new infections every day as omicron took hold. >> is that a number that you think could reach half a million soon? >> you know, its possible, kaitlan, i dont think it will b you never can tell. >> reporter: saturday infections topped 800,000 for the for the. look at that graph, this is record territory. previous waves not even close. >> were almost there. i really do think within the next say thre...

Nearly two full years into this coronavirus pandemic and dafng rouse misinformation continues to thrive and surge. social media companies still struggling to keep that in check. the latest casualty in that battle though, the personal twitter account of republican congresswoman and conspiracy pusher marjorie taylor greene. over the weekend greene was permanently suspended for repeated violations of the platforms covid misinformation policy. cnns doney osullivan joins us now with more. what was th...

Clear we had in hand all the vaccines we need to get any american fully vaccinated including the booster shot. there is no excuse for anyone being unvaccinated. this continues to be a pandemic of the unvaccinated. and this is the presidents chief medical advisor, anthony fauci — speaking at the weekend. we are definitely in the middle of a very severe search and uptick in cases. if you look at the uptick its actually almost a vertical increase. this is a graph of daily us cases since november....

Covid. thats for a few factors. one, borrowing costs are historically low. and, two, theres so much demand right now for housing. theres very, very limited supply. theres arguably never been a better time to sell. but, alisyn, this is also creating some headaches for home buyers, particularly first-time home buyers and people who are relocating. >> absolutely. that graph is incredible to look at what the prices have done over the past decade or more. thank you very much. >> thank you. okay. so...