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Be up if cases are declining? i dont get it. >> this is what we call the lag that hospitalizations and death generally have during a surge. the omicron surge superimposed upon our previous surge, it looks like a shooting arrow up and a rapid descent down. so normally, this curve gets widened and these hospitalizations kind of keep extending and unfortunately deaths as well. it can take from the diagnosis to death several weeks. thats why were seeing numbers coming up, especially amongst unvaccin...

Month in our state. but it has chased delta out of town. it is less fatal. if you get vaccinated now and it can prevent serious disease that is a wonderful thing. we still dont have everybody vaccinated. i just cry about that fact. we lost an ex-trooper, a state senator, and people not vaccinated are still at risk. we are not done with that effort. that effort will continue after march 21st and we will keep our masks in hospitals and prisons and places where people are in congregate settings. th...

Evidence of that part and so on. >> yeah. you know, were seeing the virus in places like the united kingdom and south africa and denmark and when you look at a real world data from those countries, where theyve seen a lot of ba.2 it does not look like the virus produces more severe illness or more icu admissions. one thing to remember is that variants are produced all the time. this variant is rising in the united states, most recent data shows that it is about 5% or 6% of the isolates in this c...

Washington was hit very hard early on. it is a very different situation now. how much of todays announcement is treating this like an endemic learning to live with it rather than a pandemic? >> well, i think that tone or tenor of how to think of it is accurate. we now understand it is not going to be zero and is going to be in our society for how many years to come and so thinking about it in those terms makes sense and also because we now have so many more tools to fight it. we have a life savi...

Symptoms can be mild. and then can worsen over the course of the next week or two. weve known since the beginning of this pandemic that it takes about a week for folks to get sick enough to need to be hospitalized. and then about another week or so before we start to see m motality. if her conditions were mild and then dissipate, the queen is moving in the right direction. if her systems worsen, thats a different story. hopefully we wont see that. . >> i want to ask about this sub variant ba.2. ...

Tonight a new study showing an omicron sub variant known as ba2 spreads faster and may cause more severe disease than omicron, itself. lets get some guidance on this from cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner. good evening. tell me it isnt so. tell me it isnt so. >> im not sure there is really much data to suggest it is more severe than omicron. i think what the data does show is that its probably clearly a more transmissible. >> 40% more contagious they say. it has been detected in 74 countri...

Its -- look, this happens. it is very predictable. we have to quit being surprised when the republican party acts like an autocratic movement and not a political party because thats what it is now. >> perhaps we should be surprised when they start to act like with some normalcy and put forth some policy and, you know, yeah. thank you, i appreciate you joining us. thanks a lot. state after state, city after city relaxing covid restrictions but with concerns about a new contagious sub variant is t...

The omicron sub variant ba 2 has now become the dominant strain of covid-19 here in the united states. accounting for more than 50% of all cases according to the cdc. this comes as the fda expands the emergency use authorization of the pfizer and moderna vaccines. which allows adults age 50 and older to get a second booster. thats total of four shots. those eligible are able to get the shot four months after the first booster. shanghai is reporting 6,000 new covid infections. accounting for 70% ...

Second booster shot that comes just after the fda just signed off on the additional shot of the pfizer or moderna vaccine for people 50 and over. while new infections have been down recently, they are starting to creep up in a few states due to the highly contagious on the current sub variant ba.2. but now accounts for 55% the cases nationwide. health experts say it spreads faster than the original on the crime variant. so far, it has not been shown to show more severe symptoms. thank you for be...

The omicron sub variant ba 2 has now become the dominant strain of covid-19 here in the united states. accounting for more than 50% of all cases according to the cdc. this comes as the fda expands the emergency use authorization of the pfizer and moderna vaccine. which allows adults age 50 and over to get a second booster. bringing it to a total of four covid shots. those eligible are able to get the shot four months after the first booster. shanghai the engine of chinas $18 trillion economy i...