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2020 closing ceremony. and speaking of olympics, the winter games in beijing do start in just about two weeks. relatively speaking, the case count is extremely low compared to other countries. only 87 new cases reported yesterday. but because of the country's zero covid policy, if even one case is reported, it means mass testing and lockdowns. currently more than 20 million people across the country are confined to their home. that includes several neighborhoods in beijing. as far as athletes coming to beijing to compete in the olympics are concerned, they are going to be extremely limited in ...

Hospitalized with covid, but in new york and d.c. where omicron surged first, the case count is finally trending down, and the party of trump is the party of revenge. the former president targets a republican senator who told the truth and kevin mccarthy promises if he gets power he will use it to punish democrats. we begin the hour though with the president and his consequential visit today to georgia. voting rights is his focus as he visits some of atlanta's civil rights landmarks. remember, boycotts were a staple tactic as the movement gained tracks 60 years ago and that the democratic pres...

Are just fearful of it. >> reporter: people you treat, come in not believing they have it? >> some of them don't believe they have it. they don't believe it's a real thing. i've heard that. >> reporter: with nearly a third of kentuckyians testing now positive for the coronavirus, the state has smashed its record weekly case count, more than 72,000. the unvaccinated or partially vaccinated accounting for nearly 80% of those cases, nearly 85% of hospitalizations, and more than 83% of deaths. sherry kahn, 80 years old, diabetic and asthmatic now has coronavirus, too. she had one dose of the pfize...

>> sam stein, leigh ann caldwell, thank you both. oregon is calling in more national guard members to aleve nate the pressure on hospitals there, fueled of course by the omicron variant. governor brown requested an additional 700 troops be deployed to hospitals across the state adding to the 500 called off last week. jacob ward joins me now. what are hospitals facing in oregon right now? >> chris, the oregon health authority reports cases as of tuesday were over 700 and that means an increase of about 35. from the prior day, seems to have part of what led governor kate brown to call up the n...

Death count. dr. fauci says a close look at the case count suggests we are close to a turning point. >> what we would hope, as we get into the next weeks to month or so, we'll see throughout the entire country the level of infection get to below what i call the area of control. there's a big bracket of control. control means you're not eliminating it, not eradicating it, but it gets down to such a low level, it's severalal integrated into the general respiratory infections we have learned to live with. >> let's take a look at the numbers. if you look at cases right now, 681,000-plus new covid ...