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At least one child has died. doctor looking into whether a prior infection could be related. >> now to covid rather, a new article that may hit home for many. are we in the middle of a invisible covid wave. joining me now is associate professor of anesthesiology and critical care medicine, welcome back to the doctor, it's good to see you. this atlantic article talks about three things. the number of ba.2 cases are on the rise. ba.2 the offshoot of omicron that's on the rise here in the u.s.. it's also saying that the -- doesn't officially get recorded in the case counts. plus, there's an awful...

Use of a mask but wearing a good n95 mask, a kn95 mask goes a long way. and people will say, yes, why are you making a big deal? you can still wear a mask. thaelgs true, that's my personal choice. but two-way masking is best compared to one-way masking. >> so dr. noble, what do you have to say to what dr. matthew argued there. does it make sense to stop masking at a time when we're seeing an increase in spread throughout much of the country not necessarily in hospitalizations, although we have seen in an increase in some states. but just the surge going on and the increase in cases and so fort...

Close attention. let's see where the next few months go. i'm concerned. i want to watch those numbers. at this point i remain confident we'll get through this without disruption. >> we were talking before the show about this figure, 50% increase over the last two weeks and about how that last year would have made everybody go back inside. it is a different world now. there are questions still that a lot of people have about what do you do with information like that, that case counts are rising? >> first of all, absolutely right. we would have reacted to this differently a year ago. cases are s...

Welcome back to "state of the union." it's covid fatigue versus covid frustration. two plus years into the pandemic, masks are off pretty much everywhere, including planes, trains, buses, after a federal judge ruled that that is possible. but as a new variant is driving case counts higher again, is the new normal here to stay? with me to talk about that is dr. ashish jha, the biden administration's new coronavirus response coordinator. thank you so much for being here, i should say, because it's you. especially. we both tested and tested negative before talking in person. so, coronavirus is sp...

Passenger incidents we've seen this year, about 70% of them are over masks, so we will see if the mask mandate sticks by 15 days or if it goes even longer than that, g. >> let's see exactly what that means. i appreciate it, pete, for bringing us this breaking news. just before the mask mandate was announced, i spoke to dr. an anthony fauci about the uptick in cases. >> with many people testing at home, the case counts could be off. they could be undercounted. the new white house covid adv adviser, dr. jha, told us that even though he thinks the mask mandate is great, it does pose a problem. >>...