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>> the omicron wave assigning some signs of waning in the country. wall street journal reports that quote, there are some signs that the pandemic could be losing momentum after new infections began to slow and some of the first u.s. hotspots, 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 a rough road ahead. >> this is a difficu...

Emergency for them is obviously not an emergency to us essentially all were going to be doing is giving him a ride to the hospital. >> and you think hes going to get in right away when he shows up >> absolutely not. >> no? >> no. were going to be -- this ambulance will then be out of service for at least one hour >> reporter: hospital delays arent new, but the omicron wave, crippling staff shortages, and an extremely high volume of non-emergency 911 calls has made it worse wilbourn says in the c...

Situation. the uk is starting to roll back restrictions and hong kong under massive lockdown. where do thing stands right now? doctor: certainly with regards to omicron it has started to decline where it first came up in northeast, new york, new jersey, washington, d.c. area. so now thankfully those cases are going down. the hope is that it continues to go down as quickly as it went up although we dont know that for certain and in the uk its starting to stall and we have seen that before. so the...

On and the chinese will give lip service to it while assiduously paying attention to their bottom line and the reach of their tentacles arounden the world. >> now on occasion the elitess will kind of turn on each other because they see that this game is up and scott gottlieb isp on the board of pfizer, former fda commissioner. he actually kind of fsi took fae down a pegn when fauci said, well, we cant say that the end of the pandemic is is nigh even though omicron is kind of a live attenuated va...

The first minister of wales says his government is confident its safe to lift restrictions on outdoors sporting events and outdoor hospitality. limits introduced after christmas meant fans were effectively banned from stadiums. pubs and restaurants will also be able to operate outdoors without the rule of six or social distancing. speaking this morning, mark drakeford praised the people of wales for enabling these restrictions to be eased. after many difficult and worrying weeks i am pleased to ...

Measures to stop covid are much lower. so, how are you so sure? i mean, one thing we have learned throughout the past two years is, you know, the virus changes. it can mutate. and there is a lot we may not know. >> we can not know for sure. what we need to do is incorporate new data and when it changes probabilities, adapt. and this is what is happening, right? you have four factors that each one of them alone is a game changer, right? after the omicron wave, 90 to 95% of people are going to hav...

Keep hearing about is the pipeline. weapons coming in, guns coming in from outside of new york city but the issue for new york city right now is that there are just too many guns in the city already. its not whats going to come, its whats here now and thats something that the police department and the mayor need to address is how to get the guns that are the thousands and thousands of guns that are in this city already, how do you get them out of here? and how do you take them off the street? so...

Joe. >> thats good to know. >> i know. >> i think youre a good guy. >> im putting that on a plaque. >> t-shirt. >> hanging it in my living room. >> okay. >> ill get a t-shirt maybe and wear it to the beach. >> thank you, guys. that was good. >> im a good dude. "the new york times" is illustrating americas status on the world stage when it comes to covid. deaths in the united states per capita are the highest among other large high income countries. the u.s. is represented by the black line on ...

Seeing? particularly, during this omicron wave? >> yeah, well, i think that one analogy here, as you just showed, tucker carlson is on a nightly basis, propagating an ideology that is getting thousands of americans killed per day. i think its a bit like if you are broadcasting a pro-al-qaeda propaganda on september 11th. i mean, you had thousands of people who are dying as a result of the ideas that this network is platforming. and there is some question about, do we see this kind of hostility t...

Omicron is not as deadly, hasnt been as deadly as, you know, we were seeing with prior variants but, you know, you still have a massive strain in hospitals. how -- how long do you see this sort of lingering and what can people look forward to in the post omicron world or should we be fearing that some other variant is on its heels? doctor: two points to that, one of the reasons that omicron has been awful is not only do we have huge amount of transmission, omicron is far more transmissible than ...