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You will no longer be required to take a pcr test. now, the new advice is to stay at home, and that is while you're feeling unwell, while you're having these symptoms that you're having these symptoms that you think could be coronavirus. but if you are 18 or younger, you don't need to stay at home if you have slight symptoms like a sore throat or a runny nose, you can still go to school or college or to work. now, testing for the general population also comes to an end from this weekend. we are seeing mass testing centres here being closed down, but testing for workers in higher risk environme...

So we saw when yantan closed down in shenzhen. that's a huge container terminal as well. hundreds of thousands of shipments, contents of the port, goods were accumulated in factories and warehouses, and it took weeks after the port reopened to clear the cargo backlog. and you'll probably remember the effects cascaded to the u.s. there were port traffic jams in los angeles and other ports around the world. now, the difference this time is it's not just one port. it's an entire city that's closed down, and we're talking about a highly interconnected, global trade center. so this is going to have...

We have seen on the west coast has happened in northern california. this is in santa cruz, the santa cruz harbor, with the water reaching a lot of the lifeguard towers and impressive images that we have been seeing from this area. now, beaches across san diego county, orange county, l.a. county, half closed down, and they are asking people to stay away from the water, out of the water, and away from the shore, because of this type of flooding that you can see that can easily go from a few waves to maybe a foot of water, something that could be very dangerous, so they are asking people to stay ...

Says there were three waves. but the reality is that's because people at the time were so tired of having lived through it they basically just stopped thinking about it. in 1920, however, there was another wave in kansas city and detroit, in milwaukee and minneapolis and other places, that was actually the deadliest. and people did nothing. in 1918 they did what we did in 2020. closed down. when another wave came, not every place closed down, but some did. 1920, they basically just forgot about it. and it actually was quite a deadly year. you know, we're on the verge sort of doing that right n...

Well, john barry's the author of "the great influenza," and he joins me now. john, thank you for joining us to talk about this. you say that most people think that the 1918 flu pandemic ended the summer of 1919 but they're wrong. what actually happened, sir? >> well, even the cdc website says there were three waves. but the reality is that's because people at the time were so tired of having lived through it they basically just stopped thinking about it. in 1920, however, there was another wave in kansas city and detroit, in milwaukee and minneapolis and other places, that was actually the dea...