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Hospitalizations are indeed down. pediatric hospitalizations are up. we just spoke to someone who works at the national children's hospital in d.c. said pediatric hospitalizations are up. you see that data, i assume, right? >> no, absolutely. and we are looking at that closely, but even in the raw numbers of our -- of children in the hospital, while that increased in the last two weeks in december, it is still a relatively low number and well within their capacity. >> yeah, i definitely think you got to mention the hospitalization number when we are talking about these new case counts. given t...

Voices of opposition even from state media outlets like beijing news saying this in is serious violation of the spirit of the rule of law and should never happen again. but so far local authorities stand firm behind this decision saying this was meant to send out a strong warning to the local population not to break any immigration and covid laws and regulations, and they see nothing inappropriate about this. but beijing leadership has been touting the effectiveness of their zero covid policy saying how it shows they always put people first. but incidents like this obviously expose a dark side...

As much as possible. but the administration is reckoning with the fact that the case counts are exponentially so much higher now than they were a few weeks ago and even higher than they were at the peak. so that is what a driving a pragmatic strategy here than something that is simply about following what might be the best science. there are an important component to what they keep recommending, the isolation and quarantining has to be coupled with mask wearing in the second half of that ten-day period. that's a high burden for them in deal with a public that refuses to do it. but it is essent...

Infectious for the two days before they develop symptoms and three days after that. but beyond that, it is not really clear that there is any improvement in the case counts sort of beyond that, if we continue to quarentine for day six through 11. so it is really worth trying to tailor those interventions where we could have what looked like normal life and adapt to what is an infectious virus. >> let me ask you this question because it is somewhat personal for me. i have two kids, both under five and neither one could get a vaccine yet. they're perfectly healthy kids. how much risk should you ...

Hour ago. how did they defend the cdc's new quarantine and isolation guidelines? >> reporter: yeah, joe, this was an important opportunity for the country to hear from the president's top advisers on dealing with the pandemic. so many questions about a number of issues. we heard from dr. fauci, new data, which indicates that this particular strain, the omicron strain, while it is much more highly transmissible, does appear to be less severe. that's certainly some good news, even if the transmissibility is a problem leading to those record case counts. we also got a little bit of an update on t...