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Will hold a moment of silence monday for the more than 900,000 americans who have died from coronavirus. covid related deaths are steadily rising in the u.s. over the last seven days. while cases have continued to fall. death rates are the highest in mississippi and lowest in hawaii. meanwhile a former fda commissioner says all states need to agree upon common metrics to determine how and when it is safe to start lifting restrictions. >> were tragically in this fight. when you look across the co...

Ideological battles of the great -- the failures of -- prolonged misery that was unnecessary because of the sort of austerity argument. give me the sort of short elevator pitch version of why the economy is doing good, actually. >> the last crisis, it took us ten years to get to this point unemployment after the crash. unemployment is currently 4% and its been about two years since the beginning of the pandemic. this time around the crash was much more severe. millions of businesses shut down wi...

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. in our health lead today, as we near the end of the omicron wave, we hope, and officials begin to lift mask mandates and other restrictions, a brand new cnn analysis shows that the covid data relied upon to make decisions is faulty and has been that way since the beginning of the pandemic. lets discuss this with dr. sanjay gupta. lay this out for us, sanjay. what is it and how concerning is it? >> well, this has been a challenge, i think, as reporters trying to report on what is happening wi...

Elevator pitch version of why the economy is doing good, actually. >> the last crisis, it took us ten years to get to this point unemployment after the crash. unemployment is currently 4% and its been about two years since the beginning of the pandemic. this time around the crash was much more severe. millions of businesses shut down with the unemployment rate going higher, well over 40% compared to 10% last time around. it was a deeper crash and the action in the real economy in a lot of ways i...

So let discuss. is it possible to move into an emdep endemic phase with only 42% of the nation boosted against the virus? >> thank you for having me. were not close to the endemic phase with 4,000 people dying yesterday. so i think that people need to understand that. and so also what being endemic is, there is a stable rate of cases. and that occur over the long term. we are still in the expo then sham phase. so even though omicron cases are declining, were still seeing high deaths. so the ques...

Down to 3 micrograms in the under 5. and for the 2 to 4-year-olds, it just wasnt as immunogenic as needed to induce a strong immune response in the 2 to 4-year-old so we knew it was going to be three dose for a while but i think there was additional data that gave some optimism. "the washington post" is reporting that last night a tranche of data came in that said no, you know, the two doses really arent going to -- arent giving enough of an immune response to make people feel comfortable. theyl...

Looking for that weve entered endemic phase, rather than being in a pandemic? >> well, i think the first thing we want to see is this omicron wave, don, go way down to the point where it was before it started. um, as the delta wave had really descended in the south. so, you know, were -- were only about halfway down, and its unclear whether itll get stuck there for a while just like it did in the uk. so, the first thing that has to happen is the omicron wave has to really descend down to the bot...

In our health lead, the leaders of more states and cities are saying it is time to start living in the endemic phase of covid. authorities across the country rapidly removing restrictions and ending mandates as the omicron wave that slammed the u.s. earlier this year recedes. but as cnns nick watt reports for us now, dr. anthony fauci says some of these new moves may be premature and risky. >> reporter: just a couple of hours from now, the governor of the most populous state in the nation will l...

As the white house continues to recommend cdc guidance on mask wearing. this week, delaware, california, connecticut, new jersey, and oregon all announced plans to end school or indoor mask mandates. all blue states. >> right. these rollbacks come as cases and hospitalizations in the u.s. drop significantly from the height of the omicron wave. but theyre still concerned because relatively few children ages 5 to 11 are fully vaccinated. so joining us to discuss this dr. paul offet, a member of th...