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The European Commission is set to say the EU has entered a new post-emergency phase of the pandemic in which testing should be targeted and monitoring of COVID-19 cases should be similar to sample-based flu surveillance, according to a draft document seen by Reuters. The shift comes amid a gradual drop of cases and a fall in the number of deaths linked
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Delta variant made the pandemic resurge just after it had appeared that vaccinations were really tamping it down and the president was celebrating that. so that was one thing. the afghanistan pullout, which was so chaotic and looked terrible to the american public, that was another thing. and then inflation, which as phil discussed in his report is overshadowing all of the good economic news that they're talking about. the question now is whether you can get an upward trajectory later this year from a couple of things. one, economists expect that inflation is going to moderate this year. recen...
You know, et al. narrow outbreak. the world health organization has already put out a warning that future boosters can we connect the immune system and by the temp the vaccine for omicron could be ready, it definitely needs to be tested, that variant is basically going to be extinct and we could be onto new brian torras hopefully at the end of the pandemic. it was clear that we made it clear that the emergency phase of the epidemic is closed now. we should move onto just treating the occasional high-risk patient and then moving on with normal life. >> laura: dr. mccullough, thank you. great to...
Court struck down the mandate. let's get more on the state of the pandemic from cnn's alexandra field. >> i don't think there is a chance that we're going to eradicate this. >> reporter: but dr. fauci says a national turnaround could be just a week or two away when it comes to the omicron surge, and the world health organization is hoping the emergency phase of the pandemic will end this year. >> i think normal is going to look like many of these peaks and valleys of surges. >> reporter: nationwide, hospitalizations are now lower than they were a week ago, but deaths are higher than a week ago...