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That i would caution people against, we dont need a zero sum game. public health is not about pitting stakeholders against one another. public health is about informing practice, informing and giving guidance so that we can keep the greatest amount of people healthy. >> yeah, absolutely. and stacy, to that point, you know, look, were -- youre a woman after my own heart. i spent some time in labor organizing at the national education association, so i completely understand your position. but we h...

New york, which are following, temporarily following the case numbers, but they also appear to have started to turn the corner. may that continue. if those trends continue in new york city, and that is a big if, it could be a sign that this current wave may be on track to come down just as rapidly as it rose up. the top elected official for manhattan said tonight online, quote, there are continued signs that new york citys omicron wave has plateaued. but with cases and hospitalizations still at ...

Tonight at 10: the scale of the omicron crisis is revealed, as new figures suggest one in every 15 people in the uk was infected in the run up to new years eve. no more pcr tests to confirm a positive lateral flow result in england and wales, to help ease pressure on labs, if there are no symtoms. but fears remain, for hospitals... potentially of greatest concern, case rates are now rising rapidly among the older and more vulnerable, including doubling every week among those over 60, with the ob...

And i think a very good emerging plan to deal with these care backlogs just before christmas. we were quite close to announcing it, but as you might expect, given the needs of the current omicron wave, that has had to be put on hold. i think we will need to go back around to identify what changes we need to make, given what is happening over these three months. what we know is we will need to do about three or four things long—term, so at the staffing issue, but we also know we will need to gr...

The federal governments border officials have read more strictly into the exemptions are not allowed djokovic the same kind of permission the state government officials had provided him.— provided him. that was really clearly walked _ provided him. that was really clearly walked us _ provided him. that was really clearly walked us through - provided him. that was really i clearly walked us through that. thank you very much, and thank you for coming on. we appreciate that. the uk prime minister...

Diplomatically. i asked ioc move the olympics. thats not going to happen. i dont think we should punish the athletes but i think theyre going to stand up solidarity against the human rights violations and take home the gold, too. like jesse owens showed hitler the arian nation was not superior, show the chinese that were going to take home the gold and not them. >> thank you very much and oh, happy birthday and happy 60 there to you. the biden administration has a new plan for americans to get...

Other service providers will be allowed to reopen. and the french court is suspended paris strict outdoor mask mandate. the tribunal warned that its not only necessary but proportion to health. im joined by cnns melissa bell following all of this from paris. you know that ruling on masks, i was stunned that you have to wear, by law, masks in paris outside. i know now thats been overturned. but it certainly does indicate that level of fatigue, right, right across europe, for a lot of these restri...

Sick. the cdc also recommending that students sit three feet apart in those classrooms when theyre there in person. cdc director walensky talked about this omicron wave, and how those -- some early research shows that those who have been infected with the delta variant may have some -- or those who have been infected with the omicron variant may have protection against the delta variant but it doesnt go both ways. if youve had the delta variant you can still be susceptible to omicron. >> liz, in...

Unvaccinated people? omicron versus delta, omicron versus the earlier variance. is omicron less severe both in vaccinated and unvaccinated people or are unvaccinated people essentially opened this in a way that there is really no mercy for them from the virus? >> yes, two things are going. on first of all, theres more breakthrough infections and there was with delta. so that means we have a bigger pull of vaccinated people getting invested. but there is no question about it that their levels of ...

Concern that they could get sicker and are at a higher risk for spreading it to others. jim? >> understood. interesting to watch. elizabeth cohen, thank you very much. all right, joining me now to answer your and my questions, dr. paul offit, a member of the fdas vaccine advisory committee. great to have you back. first, big picture. we talked a couple of weeks ago very early in the omicron wave, im curious what you learned since then in looking at the data from south africa, israel, what we h...