this week. the question becomes, though, when does it actually become treated more like the flu as you said? you know, i don t think there s a switch that we flip. it doesn t go from pandemic to endemic. it s slow gradation. and we re definitely somewhere on that gradation. last winter we had very few percentage of the population with immunity of any type, whether it s from having the disease or having the vaccine to covid. this winter we have a much larger percentage of the population, and it s when people have antibodies to this to at least some form, some variation of covid, is when we start really talking about it being endemic rather than being pandemic. the medical regulator this morning recommended shortening the interval between your last covid-19 vaccine shot and boosters to three months versus six here in the u.s. if you re dealing with someone who got moderna or pfizer at the beginning.
for years. let s get to cnn s paula hancocks live in melbourne, australia. this situation is casting a light not only on the world of tennis but australia s immigration policy. reporter: it certainly is, boris and christi. this has been playing out across the world and we re coming to a head at this point as we will find out, potentially, by the end of monday whether or not novak djokovic will be allowed to stay in australia and play in the australian open. otherwise, if it doesn t go his way in that court case on monday in that hearing, then he will be deported from australia. the other option, this could be prolonged within the courts and then, of course, it s up to whether he has permission to play in the australian open while the legal protceedings ar ongoing. i m outside where he s being held in the immigration facility, it s a festive atmosphere, the pro-djokovic
omicron-specific shot with my colleague jose diaz-balart just a few moments ago. this is part what have dr. fauci said. it makes sense to have at least ready an omicron-specific boost. we may not need it. it doesn t go without saying that we absolutely are going to need it. we may not need it at all, but i think it s prudent to at least prepare for the possibility that this may be a persistent variant that we may have to face even though it s at a very low level. dock tock, do you agree with dr. fauci there, will we need this only crop-specific vaccine? we may need, it craig. it s a proactive move rather than a reactive move and a welcome change than what we ve seen in the recent months where we re doing things much delayed in our time-like. this could be what we need for sterilizing immunity. our current vaccines protect us from hospitalization and death, but they are less protective for
recruiting pool has all but evaporated. but this is a day to honor the sacrifices and mourn for the families. new york city itself is in mourning as you see st. patrick s cathedral as people have wrapped around the church there to pay homage to this minister, this public minister. and this is a real public service. this is not a person who s a politician, self-serving people looking to be lobbyists. this is real self-sacrifice, the highest level of sacrifice, the most noble work you can imagine, and a day like that should be acknowledged in houston and new york and everywhere else. it s quietly going on. it doesn t go under the headlines. police are the rule of law in our society, and we have to reckon with the fact that that rule of law has been eroded and we re not going to find people to do the work. this is a conversation that should have been going on for years. we re just now catching up with where we re at. we need to keep having it.
the netherlands. part are the structure, the bridge not the yacht, may have to be dismantled. cnn s isa soares joins us live with the details. a big boat, old bridge and a lot of money, isa. yeah. it doesn t go too well, does it? it is a first world problem. it s a new and pretty impressive and pretty massive super yacht is being built in rotterdam for jeff bezos. it s nearing completion. getting it to the owner is not as easy as an amazon delivery. it will require taking out an historic bridge in rotterdam. the sailing yacht is 417 foot long and 130 foot tall but for the boat to reach the ocean it will have to pass through rotterdam and navigate the steel bridge. the bridge s central span just for those of you trying to get your heads around this can be