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Interesting, the sub variant, ba five is raging here and elsewhere, more than 150,000 cases and deaths approximately 500 today, per day, what should we be doing to control the spread with school starting? >> seems like weve been talking about this for years and indeed we have, urgently i think as usual that prematurely we stopped taking precautions and i get it, people are tired of wearing masks, im tired of wearing mass, but if 500 or 600 cases a day seems normal to you, it doesnt to me, this p...

A top health official has called on people to be extra vigilant in protecting themselves from the spread of Covid-19, as another sub-variant of Omicron – known as BA2.75 – has been detected in Thailand.

Variant. joining me now is doctor which a block stock, msnbc medical contributor and founder and ceo of advancing health equity. doctor blackstock, thank you so much. the president is said to have ba.5, its spreading like wildfire. its come for 75% of all new cases. how protected from the sub variant or those of us who have been vaccinated and boosted? >> good morning, sam. thanks so much for having me. so, people should know that the current vaccines are directed towards the wild type virus, th...

The first case of Covid-19 attributed to a new antibody-avoiding subvariant, BA.2.75, has been detected in Thailand, but experts do not foresee it causing serious outbreaks, according to the Centre for Medical Genomics.

Extended the public health emergency declaration, which allows many americans access to covid tests, to treatments and vaccines. joining me now, dr. natalie -- medical computer push -- welcome dr., natalie, lets look at the last couple of weeks alone. covid has gone up 12.6% in the u.s., several cities are now asking people to start taking more precautions. they are saying, you should wear a mask indoor. anytime in crowded spaces. how severe is this wave now? how severe is it going to be? how do...

Behind here? well, joining me now is dr. harvey raiche, epidemiology professor at yale school ofal public health. rice, i feel like like they got the old band back together. they had found jadeja. they had leonski. it and so its the sub variant of the sub variant ofe the boaster times three . >> what is happening here? >> well, were back to singapore and the theres no other excuse worked. >> once we think its going to work again, they just do more of it. but dr. hish, even the new york times, i ...

What the fda says. if they authorize it, i do. the sub variant is out there. we know we will see more and variance. i want peoples immune system to be as protected as possible. getting a vaccine is the safest way to do that. >> we know omicron specific boosters are expected to come in the fall. theres been a bunch of hope around that. are you concerned that the variance will evolved past the newer boosters by then? >> this is a very good question. i think the fda experts who look at this data su...

It is 47 minutes past the hour and the white house announces a new plan to manage the omicron variant of covid. nationwide cases have increased 80% with the seven day average for new cases growing to more than 128,000 daily infections. those figures do not include the at-home tests many are using now. joining us is the white house covid-19 response coordinator, dr. ashish jha . what is the white house doing? >> weve been tracking the sub variant for weeks now. it is spread in other parts of the ...

Headlines this week about the new sub variant of omicron, with the new clinical name, ba.5. some headlines are calling it, quote, the worst fire aspirant -- ba.5 is now the dominant strain in the country and accounts for more than half of the countrys covid cases. we know it is more contagious than any previous strain we have come across so far. and experts say there are some early signs that this variant might make you slightly sicker than previous strains. we are waiting to get more data about...

If youre 50 years or older ask your doctor or pharmacist about shingles. you may have seen different versions of this very colorful chart from the centers for disease control, given that we have been flooded with more and more new contagious coronavirus variants in the past year. this is the cdcs varied proportion chart. it tells you how much of the coronavirus floating around our country is from one variant versus another. and it shows you how those proportions have changed over time, which is ...