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Enjoyable to try and get a 3-year-old to sit still while i stick a q-tip up his nose. >> that's true. thankfully the rapids are -- >> yeah, not as high, which is nice. the rise in cases -- >> exactly. >> there seems to be concern in some folks about it, and the hospitalization numbers, are you worried about the rise in cases? >> not at the moment. you know, what we are seeing, you know, certainly is the lowest hospitalization rates that we have seen in a long, long time. but case rates are going up. as you know, katy, we are not just going on case rates. we're going on hospitalizations and dea...

Subway? the same inconsistency we see here. it shouldn't be about mandates but choice and consistent direction and information. >> bill: a mandate should be reserved for extreme circumstances. >> yes. >> bill: you are making the case we're past the point in covid where the circumstances are extreme. >> yes. and that's good news and what we should be hearing. it is because of several reasons. the ba-2 variant is milder. a lot of people are vaccinated. 72% of americans are vaccinated. a lot more tools in the tool box now. all of it is good news. that's what we should be focusing on. >> bill: the...

Because they are suffering from covid. i've been speaking tojeremy faust who's an emergency physician at brigham and women's hospital and an instructor at harvard medical school. we began by discussing the what can be done to tackle the soaring covid case rates. no, that doesn't sound very good at all. and we know that 0micron might be a little bit milder, but if you look in the hospitals we see patients who have coronavirus that looks just like it did in 2020. so if you combine that with the amount of care we have for other things, influenza, heart disease, things that, quite frankly, we had ...

For asymptomatic infection. i think understand the logic. it's important for people to understand that the omicron variant, like previous variants, infects us initially in the upper airways. there's nothing about vaccination that prevents that happening. what's true, as time goes on and more of the population has been infected or vaccinated, is that our immune resistance against infection and against severity of symptoms is going up. one of the things authorities are clearly reacting to is the fact that while hospitalisation rates are going up relatively slowly, relative to case rates, case ra...

To let them know it's too late. >> the whole policy of using new case numbers to generate policy is coming under more questions especially since millions of people are now taking home tests and not reporting the results anywhere. tennessee has now begun to report its test results weekly instead of daily. and michigan so far is rejecting new federal guidance that calls for covid patients to isolate for five days instead of 10. michigan will keep with the 10-day isolation. death tolls in michigan have been double the national average. anita, back to you. >> thank you so much for that live report...