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Lift their mask mandates and ease restrictions? >> well, its part of the issue. were flying blind a little bit when it comes to many of these different metrics. you know, we know that the numbers are still very high, but theyre coming down. we know that if you look at the cdc projections, 61,000 people are still sadly expected to die over the next four weeks, jake. these are astounding numbers still. but at the same time the numbers seem to be coming down. i think thats why hospitalization data ...

Broad agreement thats the task at hand. >> lets get some insights and expertise from the executive vice chairman of emergency medicine at massachusetts general hospital in boston. grateful for your time. does the government need to change the standard, if you will, somehow redefine high transmission as the cdc or set some other standard that helps mayors and governors decide you need a mask, do you need a mandate? >> thats a great question and this is the time to start asking it. the first graph...

To wear a mask, if you want to protect yourself that way, please go ahead. if youre wondering why did they change so dramatically, the cdc is looking at case numbers to set their guidance, now, theyre also looking at hospitalization data. christi, boris. >> elizabeth, thank you so much. still ahead, the crisis in ukraine is having ripple effects around the world. including here at home. why many americans are now bracing to pay more at the pump, when we come back. before treating your chronic ...

Being doomed. lets just start on the vaccination data. it continues to be a kind of informational bed rock here for all of this.l here is the new york data. hospitalization data. that were seeing right now. you know, were just seeing a huge difference between the hospitalizations for folks that are unvaccinated and vaccinated. you can see that enormous spike there in folks who are unvaccinated. thats like per capita versus d vaccinated. we see this play out all over the place. the sort of immuni...

Can you extrapolate that to the united states? what should we be looking at? >> yeah, thats probably true. remember, youve got to balance less hospitalizations with more cases, and, you know, hopefully they dont balance out in the favorable category. i think thats -- its a positive sign, but it could be outweighed by just the avalanche of cases. the second thing i would say, if you look at the hospitalization data between the vaccinated and unvaccinated, youre talking about a 35 times higher rat...

And the doctors stress that hospitalization data in the country is still very, very limited. one scary part of that study, though, you are five times, at least five times more likely to be reinfected with omicron than you are with any other strain. so it is going to be a very challenging few weeks ahead for this country, kim. >> yeah, still some time before we get some clarity on those important questions, great reporting there, scott mclean in london. joining me now is dr. peter chin hong, hes ...

Be vaccinated, whether youve been infected or not. >> when we look at where were at, as we were talking about the numbers are going down, specifically i really focus in on the hospitalization and deaths numbers. when we start to see those drop, thats a really good sign but im wondering, what are you look for at this point that causes you to have a little sigh of relief. >> hospitalizations are i think most sensitive indicator, hospitalization data comes from hospitals not subject to day-to-day t...

Our children have had various viruses over the years and we know theyll be okay. this one is a little bit different. lets take a look at whats happened with covid-19 hospitalizations among children. so this data found the week of august 26th through september 2nd, there were more than 250,000 new cases among children in the united states. thats about up to age 18. thats a 23% increase in just one week. thats the highest weekly increase ever. to your point, jim, people might ask, well, who really...

Mask. if you arent vaccinated, you should be wearing a mask. >> say again. >> there is poor cdc data on children and adolescents. so i dont know how they can make that call. dr. marty wrote about this in the wall street journal and i will be brief. 335 children under the age of 18 died with a covid diagnosis. they make no -- they dont distinguish between actually covid causing the death or the child having covid and dying from something else. there are problems with the adolescent hospitalizatio...

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