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Thats the other side of that argument. thanks, ari. juan. good to see you. thank you. so late today, fox pressing the white house on why theres so much confusion coming down from the cdc on the guylines for quarantines and what exactly does it mean to be fully vaccinated these days. >> the omicron variant accounts for 95% of the cases right now. data also shows two shots helps with the variant. so we have dr. amesh adalja next. i have friends. [ chuckles ] well, he may have friends, but he rides...

Virus. that obviously is a few days ago now, so it will be even more than that figure. she pointed out that the number of people in hospital has almost doubled. it has gone from 679 to 1223 in the past week. that is an increase of 80%. what was also i think significant about what nicola sturgeon was saying was that she was saying there is going to be a new strategy, which will be developed over the next few weeks, and that will be more in terms of trying to avoid restrictions and lock downs of t...

Vaccine innovation, ford which set ambitious goals for produces electric vehicles and chip maker nvidia with disruptions. we saw the briefly return to normal. stay-at-home stokes that performed so well like the streaming services, peleton and zoom, came falling back to effort as lock downs eased consumer spending. as we head into the new years, the mean stocks, much lower than the highs in january still posted eye-watering gains on the year like amc, with returns to more than 1,200%. so a strong...

Early analysis that you are seeing does it mirror that? >> yes, absolutely. most of my patients that i am seeing testing positive, trace, their symptoms are very mild and some are shocked they even tested positive. what i see most of them havent had their booster. with two shots im seeing severe sore throat, headache, runny nose, congestion. just one person out of the last 1,000 persons ive seen. less severe but again if you are unvaccinated you are at higher risk of complications and protect yo...

Of people struggling, wanting the restrictions to lift, wanting to spend time with family, spend time with businesses. unfortunately were only seeing the lock downs increase. germany says theyre seeing and explosion of cases and within days they expect omicron to be that leading variant. >> yeah, its difficult. people dont want to be locked down anymore. theyre doing something about it as you can see there. thanks, alex. i appreciate it. meantime, the worries about the lockdowns over there, worr...

Think? >> well, i dont think theyll go ahead with that. i think people are fed up at mandates and heavy hand of government. you are seeing countries like australia now have their prime minister do a 180 after significant lock downs and talk about the role of personal responsibility and getting away from a culture of mandates and moving toward a culture of personal responsibility. that came directly from the prime minister of a country with some of the most draconian lockdowns out there. people a...

Permission officials and its interesting because until recently chinese officials have been able to control these outbreaks of the coronavirus with quite targeted lock downs so neighbourhoods and the like and we have not seen an entire large city lockdown for quite some time here in china and making the proximity of the olympics might have something to do it. its not that far to the west of beijing and theyd seen omicron taking off in other parts of the world and it shows what china is prepared ...

The three christian ministries have taken it to the u.s. supreme court. at issue is the emergency temporary standard that president joe biden has asked osha to put in place. that standard requires all businesses to have -- with 100 or more employees to have workers vaccinated or the unvaccinated get weekly tests and expected to affect 80 million workers. the department of labor spokesman says this. osha can now once again implement this vital workplace health standard which will protect the heal...