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Coronavirus pandemic and we are still losing over 2000 of our fellow countrymen and women a day. the vast majority of those 2000 deaths a day are completely preventable deaths that would not be happening if we could get everyone at the very least, vaccinated and ideally, boosted. just over 67% of the total eligible population is fully vaccinated right now. and the number one thing driving our low vaccination rate is the right wing movement to stop people from getting vaccinated. look at this cha...

Rio, the dean from emery school of medicine and at grady. good to see you. youre here in atlanta. doctor, how do you answer the question? are we turning a corner? >> well, i think we are. i think we are. its a country beginning to see a decrease in many cases. areas of the country where the omicron wave started are seeing a decrease in the number of cases. but other areas are not. areas in the south. areas in the west that started later are still peak, still going up. but i think its going to ta...

Cloth masks provide the least protection with omicron so contagious, and that n-95 and kn-95 masks provide more protection and theyre especially important for people at high risk of infection or severe disease. tonight, as this moves across the country, in new york, the encouraging news -- a glimmer of hope on all of this. once the epicenter of this omicron wave at the start, what the governor now says theyre seeing. heres erielle reshef tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the cdc is out with that lo...

Thats about as far as that bill is expected to go. the clash expected ahead on the floor of the u.s. senate. where does it all leave the biden administration? this now leaves voting rights and the build back better act stalled in the upper chamber. now, we have new reporting about a change in strategy for the white house. it could mean cutting much of washington out of the presidents schedule. then the omicron wave pushing hospitals to the absolute break. there are more americans in the hospit...

Competitive and already looking ahead to the next five years. we head into this election period, then, with both rounds of the french presidential election in april with a particularly divided and fractious political landscape. and even as those covid-19 figures have yet to peak, the omicron wave still hasnt peaked here in france with growing pressure on hospitalizations and also on the government to try and get to the bottom of this, to get to the end of this ahead of the poll. laura and chri...

Cuccinelli about seizing the machines and he said he didnt have the power. it never developed to the point of talking about an executive order, but we know the house select committee is looking into this effort to draft an executive order and how it began including the roles of giuliani, flynn, waldron and former trump attorney sidney powell. paula reid, cnn, washington. mark short served as the chief of staff to the former vice president of mike pence. hes someone that is closely aligned with...

Important to state that this storm around novak djokovic has really erupted at a time when australia is recording tens of thousands of new covid—i9 infections each and every day. we have not seen these numbers all the way through the pandemic. this is a highly vaccinated country, but one thatis vaccinated country, but one that is in the grip of a worsening omicron wave, so that explains i think, why many australians were deeply frustrated novak djokovic came into the country, and was not vacci...

With everything from our experts to shots of nurses and others speaks out. when you look nationally, hospitals are over 80% full. in oklahoma city there are four hospitals with no icu beds left and federal health officials are cautioning while its okay to be tired, there are valid debates about all of this, i emphasized that a lot with you here in the news, the authorities want you to understand this is not over yet. >> the challenge is that nothing, the entire country is not moving at the same ...

Think as the senator is working on looking at safer workplaces including personal protective equipment standards, making workplaces safer, but also looking at patient health care worker ratios. thats something that only comes if you can give them more help to make working conditions safer for health care workers. the one thing i will say on behalf of all my fellow health care workers as somebody who is about to go back on clinical service again with covid still raging out there, is we want this ...

Significantly lower, what is the level of risk there, is it realistic to suppose that omicron is going to get everywhere? i think the only places that omicron won�*t get to, are those that maintain closed borders like new zealand, and even that is questionable as to whether managed isolation will keep omicron out. it�*s already throughout africa, pretty much through central and south america, we have some countries in south—east asia without surges yet but we expect those surges in the nex...