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ones oversee. so this is an emotional moment. >> it certainly is. but i mean, as you laid out, quite the you turn for china. how and why are chinese authorities changing the way covid is classified as an illness? >> so these changes to the travel restrictions are just mentioned are actually part of this broader change to how china is mentioning covid. the country says it is downgrading's covid management to a class be disease. previously, covid was managed as a class a disease that, means it was on par with cholera or the bubonic plague. which was justification for the draconian zero covid measures. now china's even changing the name from covid pneumonia to covid infection. officials are saying omicron is less severe and only a small number of cases actually develop into pneumonia. but since china has banded zero-covid, information from the country has become even more opaque with how authorities no longer are
positive and people got sick, any kind of symptoms among this group of 15,000, you said? >> yes. so we do not test -- we did not test that population of individuals. we do not -- i do not know, i should say, if i may be perfectly accurate. i do not know whether anyone was sick with covid. we certainly had some individuals get sick. not specifically with covid, to my knowledge, and we addressed their illnesses. in fact, we set up medical tents that had a certain standard of ability to address medical needs. it is -- it was -- it's hot in del rio, texas. we had cases of dehydration. we had other situations, and that is precisely why we search 1 -- approximately 150 medical professionals to address the medical needs of that population. that is why we set up medical
take the vaccine, just don't take it. fill out exemption for whatever reason nap is disqualifying. i want to keep my schools open. i want to build a strong economy. you cannot do that if your citizens are not vvaccinated. it's the most important thing we can do and what leadership is all about. >> of course, the question comes down not necessarily whether you want to see it. it's do you mandate is? that seems to be the distinction. >> a big distinction. >> thank you. newsy day. appreciate it. note, we asked for the opponent glenn youngkin to come on the show. we hope to have him on this hour very soon. coming up, official results of that so-called quote/unquote audit in arizona expected any minute. first, the latest crazy conspiracies against covid making the rounds online. and suggestions that you should garble with some weird stuff. it's weird, man. we're going to talk about it.
it is a statutory authority and they made the determination that the public health of the migrants themselves, our personnel, local communities, and the american public require it. and that is why we are exercising that authority to serve the public health. over 600,000 americans died. more than 40 u.s. border protection personnel have died. many migrants have gotten sick. we are doing this out of a public health need. it is not an immigration policy. it is not an immigration policy that we would embrace. >> last one. >> -- a question. >> congregation under the bridge, congregating, mentioning covid. what is the situation there? i know that the crowd has been dispersed. do we know who has tested
the challenges still going on even right now in the fight against covid. as president biden is asking those not eligible to get the booster shot to do just that. the cdc's booster decision for pfizer out green lighting boosters for people 65 and up, people with underlying conditions and people in high-risk jobs. that last one's particularly interesting, because that's something advisory panel voted against. the president, president biden, also had to say about people not vaccinated. >> we still have over 70 million americans who fail to get a single shot. to make matters worse, there are elected officials actively working to undermine with false information the fight against covid-19. this is totally unacceptable. >> a lot of that false information as you know is spreading online. as nbc news now reports on a dangerous new message making the rounds in anti-vaccine groups.
so i say this from a place of authority given the many, many live hours of television i've done in my career. sometimes you think you know what's going to happen on live tv and sometimes the reality is very different. that was the case on "the view" a couple hours ago when the vice president was there just about to sit down for an interview when this happened. >> can someone please apprise me of the situation? >> the two of you need to step off for a second. >> okay. >> what happened is that sunny and ana both apparently tested positive for covid. >> we're going it try to do now is do an interview with the vice president remotely right in a couple minutes. so -- that's the plan. >> you can see the shock on the hosts' faces. didn't know that was going on. these two apparently breakthrough infections. the interview conducted with the vice president sitting in another area. not on-set. a very high-profile example of
youngkin. president biden. approval rating in virginia just 46%. i'm asking you this, because this is relevant here. what's your level of concern he could be a drag on your race come election day? >> listen, you know, you always face sort of federal headwinds sometimes in these types of races, but i'm appreciative of the work president biden has done. i'm covid vaccined, leading the way. very appreciative of what the president has done to puts $14 billion of american rescue funds here. let me say this. i say it to everybody i voting ob in congress. you didn't get talent is to chitty cat all day. they have got to pass these bills. we need help in the states. infrastructure. do your job and pass legislation and help lift americans up. that's my message to washington. >> also you talk and covid vaccines, and vaccination mandates. i know covid, the vaccination process, is a huge issue in this race.
andrea, great to have you on our show in our new afternoon slot. the president talk and common challenges. covid, climate and importantly china. >> importantly china. so right, hallie. look, he gave a u.n. speech which never mentioned the worried "china" but it was all about china. it was all about going up against china, about china's aggressiveness and that was certainly the subtext of his extraordinary decision to link um with the uk and australia and really, really upset the french by cutting the french out of a nuclear submarine deal with australia. all about building up strength against china. that's the subtext of this, talking about trade and a lot of issues like, for instance, semiconductors. trying to do something about the shortages on the semiconductor supply chain, which importantly is shutting down auto plants here in the u.s., because they can't get enough semiconductors for all of these late-model cars we're so relying on computers,