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Data will be available to the public as well. but what the fda did proactively is they asked the company to look at the data and heres why they did that. heres what changed between december and now, john. we had the omicron wave and that meant we had millions more children who were infected and many who ended up in the hospital, it turns out that also generated new clinical data in the trial, the fda wants to look at that data and to understand does that mean this vaccine, two doses, is safe and...

Has been scrapped along with nightclubs being able to reopen. they were the first, the last to reopen last year and the first shut and now they can reopenjust in time for the six nations in a few weeks here in wales. and of course the work from home rule, which was still a legal requirement, has now been made just guidance only. a few things remain in place, those being that masks will still need to be worn in shops and hospitals and public transport, and vaccine passes will still be needed in c...

Paula newton joins us live. parts of canada are rolling back their vaccine mandates. saskatchewan, for example. is this welcome news to these protesters? can they take any credit for it? >> reporter: i mean, look. its more than saskatchewan. it is alberta, quebec. this is happening because the omicron wave is peaking and theyve that, look, when we can, we will roll them back. is it satisfying the truckers? absolutely not. what has happened here is they are looking for so much more than that. the...

Of omicron spread through the united states, it is probably not going to evade the immunity we acquired and not going to cause a second wave of infection like delta caused a wave of infection or ba.1.1.7 did, it could set up a longer tail where it gets in and starts to spread. you dont see a sharp decline on the back end. i believe we are going to see cases come down pretty sharply, but they could get extended out a longer period of time than what we perceive and certainly longer than what we sa...

The presidents absolutely right. it has a profound impact on the american psyche. almost everyone i think is sick of the pandemic. almost everyone wants to move on. i understand. i do. but let me just take this moment to share a little piece of friendly advice when it comes to really moving on from this pandemic. there is a fact about america. we are still woefully under boosted in this country. that is people who have gotten the booster shot after getting the vaccine. only 44% of the eligible p...

All these different places. kids coming from home, school, jobs, neighborhoods, public transit. things like that. what are you hearing from teachers who are concerned about going into the classroom? are they feeling better now than they were a year ago or really, really concerned because we just got out of the omicron wave? >> so thank you for having me on and the bottom line is this. the teachers, both college professors like yourself or pre-k teachers or high school teachers like me, think abo...

Yeah, hang on, im about to break my own record. yeah. only pay for what you need. ♪ liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty. ♪ we do have breaking news. some strong indicators of the receding omicron wave in the countrys move toward a new normal. one by one, five states just announced dates to end mask mandates in schools, child care centers, or end indoor masking entirely. new jersey, connecticut, delaware, oregon, all ending their school mask mandates either this month or next. delaware and o...

Because of vaccines, thats a game changer. and we have to now come to that reckoning and now try, because we could still save lives. we have to stop talking about, like, covid-19s in the rearview mirror. again, 2,000 americans losing their lives every day. we could still save a lot of lives right now. >> i do want to focus on the big picture as best we can right thousand. la now. particularly in washington, dc, hit hard by omicron. and biana is here and also with less serious illness than there ...

Right direction, and we need to give people hope. we need to have an off ramp with these same restrictions were putting in. there are definitely people who arent happy with this point of view. theyre saying, look, we may have new variants come up in the future, so lets guard against that. i agree we should have better treatments, we should have more testing, make sure we have high quality masks, we should do everything to protect the most vulnerable, including those immunocompromised. but at the...

An omicron spike is currently happening among children. now the cases are starting to come down, and in many cases, theyre coming down as quickly as they went up. the big question we have here for this omicron wave is does it continue to plummet and go back down to a very low level or does it resemble whats happening in the united kingdom, where it goes down about halfway and then it plateaus. we are seeing a lot of paediatric hospitalisations, however, with this omicron wave and that seems to b...