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The next day she gave birth in another hospital. she and her husband had named their daughter veronica. the strike on marm's maternity hospital has become a defining moment in a war already notorious for its brutality and great suffering inflicted on the innocent. phil black, cnn, london. >> and our thanks to phil black form report. two major cities in china are going into lockdown as covid spikes again. in country. what might this mean for covid restrictions closer to home? stay with us. or thehe places we didn't go. ♪ ♪

Concerned about? >> i'm not deeply worried about china. first of all, they're reporting about 3,000 cases a day. here in the u.s., we're still well over 30,000 cases a day. second, the chinese have received by and large less effective vaccines for all the debate about the moderna and pfizer vaccines we've had in the u.s., remember, they are. so more effective than the ones being offered elsewhere in the world right now. and the third thing is our health care system, for all its faults, is better prepared for that in china. what i'm watching much more closely is the cases, hospitalization rates...

Long, what does this tell you about the possibility for future surges and future variants? >> so this is yet more evidence that we're likely going to have to approach the covid shots the same way that we approach flu shots or other times of vaccine that's require more regular boosters. the coronavirus that makes up, that causes covid, the sars co-v 2 virus, it does steam antibodies are not sticking around as long as we home. a shot every year is something many of us do for flu. time will tell. there are other vaccines in development but for now we should expect when fall comes, many of us will...

In the u.s. deaths and hospitalizations and cases are all going down. the cdc expects them to decrease. do you think we are in the end demmic phase of covid? in other words, we've learned to live with it? and how would we know when it is the endemic phase? >> the endemic phase means we're be seeing surges anymore. it is too soon to say. endemic does not mean harmless. clearly we as a country have made a decision to move on from things like masks. time will tell what happens with future surges. and at the end of the day, i'm watching may hospital and my hospital beds. dr. megan ranney, thank yo...