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Actually the places that have gone later that are just seeing increases or just in the beginning of this omicron wave, they are in many ways lucky that they can learn from everybody else. if they put in pretty aggressive mitigation efforts, they can substantially reduce the peak of that wave, save themselves from a lot of infections, a lot of hospitalizations and deaths. so i would see that as good information that organizations, cities, states, should be using to make smarter decisions. >> dr. ...

For free. the president didnt say when but he did say wearing a mask is our patriotic duty even though public health officials have repeatedly warned that cloth mask simply dont work very well versus the omicron variant. and speaking of not working, the community a medical center in fresno, california, says that 717 employees would remain in their homes to isolate. 690 of them have tested covert positive and they appears to be very little help on the way. and through all of this, republicans wou...

The brand i trust is qunol. the omicron wave is showing some signs of waning in certain parts of the country. the "wall street journal" reports, quote, there are signs that the pandemic could be losing momentum after new infections began to slow in some of the first u.s. hot spots, including new york, firming up a trend already established in places such as south africa and the united kingdom, which were also hit early on with omicron. but the united states surgeon general warns there is still...

Same pace. the omicron wave started later in other parts of the country, so we shouldnt expect a national peak in the coming days. the next few weeks will be tough. >> back with us, dr. oddter. he worked at the university of phoenix and now is in florida. in florida where you are, weve seen across the east coast weve still got more cases but theyre increasing at a slower rate. whats your sense, given the evidence youve seen and the trends youve seen, about where we are with omicron? >> thats wha...

Surgery and cancer patients, as well as those in a&e in england will be released later today, amid rising omicron cases and staff sickness. our health correspondent dominic hughes has been to warrington hospital to find out how staff there are coping. he did say there was a space in ge a while ago. in the emergency department at warrington hospital, staff are having to manage competing pressures. the omicron wave is sweeping across north west england, with a fast—growing number of covid patien...

The new efforts to make the new efforts to make testing more available wasnt done sooner, and europe is on top of it, and why wubtz it done sooner? >> and one thing, in retrospect, you wish that you would have been able to anticipate omicron and where we are, and i think that we pulled the defense production act in the spring, if i am not mistaken, an invested 3 billion in scaling, and approved dozens of tests, and if not an omicron wave, that would have been sufficient, and if they had anticipa...

On the virus. lateral flow tests are absolutely essential to keeping us protected and to keep our economy open. there is another potential threat to staffing levels on the horizon. all health care workers in england with direct contact with patients need to have had two covid jabs by the end of march or they risk losing theirjobs. one nhs boss acknowledges that could affect around 10% of his workforce. we have approximately 1a,000 staff at kings... so you could lose more than 1,000 staff? its an...

In muskegon, michigan, just off the great lakes, one hospital there is so short on beds they are seeing patients in an outdoor tent. you know what? the high temperature today in muskegon, michigan, was 17 degrees fahrenheit. that was the high temp. theyre seeing people in tents a outside. outside. on friday, colorado announced that theyre going to start rationing care for emergency medical centers. rationing ambulances and emts. for the first time since the start of the pandemic. theyve never ha...

>> governor desantis: first of all, that is all modeling. these were highly effective against the delta very into keep people out of hospitals. we have been using them with patient coming in during the omicron wave and we have seen success editorially. we have not run a clinical trial. but neither did the fda. they were lying on one study, which was an observational study. it was not a clinical trial. it was not peer-reviewed, that said the two monoclonals are not effective. it was done by a con...

Underway, pfizer ceo says he expects the omicron specific vaccine to be ready quickly in march, which is after all only a few weeks away. even before weve gotten an omicron specific vaccine though, lots of u.s. states that were hit hardest in the early part of the omicron wave are already seeing cases decline rapidly, because we are seeing that in multiple hard-hit states, even while the variant continues to surge in rich states with low vaccination rates, our overall national case count is now ...