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Crimes. The gun violence archive finds that there have been nearly 300 Mass Shootings, meaning at least four people shot at once, since this year began. Cnn chief White House Correspondent Kaitlin Collins is with us now. So give us a look at what we expect to hear from the president. Reporter i think, number one, the fact that were hearing from President Biden taking the entire day at the white house to focus on this publicly shows that the white house is wanting to look like President Biden is ...

So if you havent started, get started, because if youre up-to-date with your vaccinations, we can put the pandemic behind us. arthel: and you call it a flash flood, not a wave. were talking about omicron, but its more transmissable, as you well know, but causes less severe illness. is so should people be casual about catching covid now with the attitude that its not so bad and theyll have natural a immunity in. >> its never a good thing to get an infection. that doesnt mean you have to seal your...

Transmission. but if you look at severity of cases and you look at the data from denmark, it doesnt appear that the cases that are with the new variant, the sublineage of omicron, are any more severe. the uk is having an increase in percentage. they started off with just a couple of percent, its going up right now. its very, very low percentage in the united states. bottom line, were keeping a very close eye on it. it looks a bit more transmissable, but not necessarily more severe. >> dr. fauci,...

Have yet to offer a clear plan. they say schools should still to cdc guidelines and keep masks on. >> always great to see you. isnt it like a metric. each state setting up a metric of its own when you get below this particular positivity rate in the community or this particular hospitalization rate in a community then you can take off the masks. am i over simplifying how they should do it? >> its a little more complicated than that. its called ba.2. this is the sub variant thats more transmissab...

Cdc director rochelle walensky is calling attention to a subvariant of omicron called ba.2 that appears to be highly transmissable. w walensky says hospitalizations could rise. >> ba.2 accounts for nearly a quarter of all new covid cases. elizabeth cohen has more. elizabeth, just when the mask mandates are being lifted across the country, now we have a new subvariant. what do we know? >> right. i think thats the reality. when you lay back on mitigation efforts, youre going to see cases go up. le...

A record number of people had coronavirus in the week ending 26th march. the latest figures from the office for national statistics suggest that one in 13 people would test positive, that�*s nearly five million people in total. that�*s higher than the record level in january. our health correspondent jim reed is here. just keeps going up. it does at the moment. another _ just keeps going up. it does at the moment. another significant - just keeps going up. it does at the moment. another sign...

Way to protect children, especially those children that are not vaccinated and who have chronic health conditions and are more vulnerable, that masking is really their only option. >> so say that theres a potential fight because the governor of florida, ron desantis, has threatened funding for school districts that tried to enforce mask mandates. lets listen to what the governor said over time about masks for students. >> these interventions have failed time and time again throughout this pandem...

Quarantines to five days. the question is will that get more people back to work quicker. with me now, dr. kevin campbell. what do you think? you think the quarantine -- the shrinkage of the quarantine times will help? lets let people get back out there. >> jackie, it was the right move. i think what were seeing is what happens when you test asymptomatic people routinely, you have a lot of positive tests that are people that are really not sick. so i think limiting that quarantine makes sense. w...

Health experts are preparing for a post-holiday COVID-19 surge as omicron continues to spread fast.

Contagious. its calmed a lot of folks since that it is not as bad as they thought but its just as contagious but they seem to be saying, you know, darn it, im going to continue with my plans. that was very much in doubt about a month ago. that is surprising. >> yeah, weve had the weeks now to see how the rest of the world is faring with omicron. numbers have gone up, but life goes on. the symptoms are not the kinds of symptoms that would necessarily keep you from feeling well, living your everyd...