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A provisional suspension that was lifted by the russian doping agency. now the ioc is lifting it to the board of arbitration. in canada protests against vaccine mandates could spread to areas like the united states. three border crossings are blocked off by trucks and other vehicles on the canadian side. we'll have much more on those two stories at the top of the hour on "early start." now here to u.k. where prince charles is in isolation after testing positive for covid again. the heir to the british throne is fully vaccinated and caught the virus in 2020. he recently met with the queen. ...

Through. >> can you sit up? >> reporter: 3,546 people were reported dead yesterday, killed by covid. by summer, covid could have claimed a million american lives. most places, omicron is now on the ebb. alabama the only state where case counts are climbing. alabama also has the lowest percentage of fully vaccinated people in this country. by the way, the u.s. army now discharging soldiers who refused the vaccine order and are not pending a final decision on an exemption. meantime, about half of americans now eligible for a booster haven't gotten one. so 84 million people got vaccinated, but fo...

Saw coming. more and more pedestrians are being killed on the road. the so-called highway of death. we'll try to find solutions. >> welcome to "the lead." we start with the health lead and a turning point in this bamd a growing list of states making plans to drop their mask mandates. california, the most populous state in the country, will end its indoor mask mandates next week. delaware will do the same and lift its mask rules for schools soon, along with connecticut, new jersey and oregon. this shift at the state level is coming as case counts are starting to go down as the public has increa...

Full, and restrictions, with the first restriction, should be the restriction on children. while for adults you can say what's the harm of adults masking when they go into a grocery store, there is a harm that we should be discussing of children continuing to mask. it doesn't mean that it doesn't have its place for children, there are high rates of hospitalization and a new variant in the future, children are particularly susceptible to, we might want to bring them back but we should be intellectually honest and say that asking has had a cost especially for the youngest learners, people with e...

Countries that were theoretically best prepared for a pandemic had no correlation with either the covid case counts or proportion of those infections that led to deaths. the authors looked at a dizzying array of metrics to find out what did. they looked at population level factors, age, body mass index, smoking habits, they looked at environmental factors, air pollution, altitude, even the number of bat species living in each location. they looked at structural factors, democracy, populism, levels of economic inequality. age had the most significant link to fatality rates among countries, of c...