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Does favor republicans according to history. presidential approval is the north star of mid-term elections, and president biden begins the year under water. you see it right there, the latest cnn polling average. 45% of americans approve of the president s job performance. 51% disapprove. the panel is back with us to discuss. arabia, if you re at the biden white house you can look at how this played out and you can see it on the screen over time. the president was above 50% when he took office and 56% and now down 13 points when it comes to approval and up 11 points when it comes to disapproval. in the summer americans realized covid wasn t going away. maybe the president on july 4th overpromised a little bit or oversuggested that covid would disappear. how does the white house, they have ten months to do it, try to change those numbers? well, i think a lot of what they tried to do is they tried to make sure that they can that they can do something to make sure that i m having so ....
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Determine what the actual recommendations that this authorization might allow for should be. a conversation that we ve had since the beginning of covid. this is now going to be our third covid january is which data should we look at when you get all this data? amopgt data you look at, hospitalizations nationally, this is everybody nationally, children nationally, 17 or under, pediatric hospitalizations are now in excess you can seat number right there. it s higher than during the delta surge in. your state of alabama it s not quite. it s trending up. pediatric hospitalizations but still well below where it was in the delta surge. what do you make of those numbers? overall hospitalizations are not tracking this explosion in cases, but pediatric hospitalizations run. why? well, we ll know more in the next week or two. i hesitate to give too specific an teens that. i do think, john, your point is really well taken. from the very beginning, think back. in march 2020 everything was ab ....
that s a key point, especially when you look at averaging 400,000 cases, new infections a day and knocks you back on your heels. to your point with omicron so far the data tells us most of these cases are not as severe which is why this from the former fda commissioner scott got lieb over the weekend jumped out at me. listen to this, sir. it does appear now based on a lot of experimental evidence that we ve gotten in the last two weeks that this is a mild form of the coronavirus. it appears to be more of an upper airway disease than a lower airway disease. good for most americans. the one group that that may be a problem for is very young children, toddlers, who have trouble with upper airway infections. this is your wheelhouse, proceedtic infectious diseases it, what does he mean by toddlers and the upper airway problem? well, anecdotally here in alabama we ve been seeing as an example of this to what dr. gotlieb was getting at. we ve been seeing younger children, you know, 1 ....
Politicians, say a certain amount of bs about covid and various other topics before they suspend them. here s the statement from twitter. they said we permanently suspended greene s account for repeated violations of our covid-19 misinformation policy, and they said that they have been clear that this would happen after repeated violateors. of course, greene using this as an opportunity to say that she s being censored by big tech. she s posted that on facebook and other platforms where she s still active. she said that twitter is an enemy to america and cannot handle the truth. worth pointing out here, john, she still does have access to a congressional twitter account and has as facebook account but just posted in the past hour or two that she has been has a 24-hour suspension from that right now, bewe re waiting for facebook to confirm that. but, look, you know, i think a lot of folks are concerned when they see platforms silencing or being able to kick off an elected representati ....