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Is we are in a different place than we used to be say even a year ago. there's lots of omicron around but we also have a lot of vaccinated people and people who have had covid recently and for all of those, there are treatments in case you get covid, so for all of the reasons we obtained a document from the cdc that shows some of the mitigation measures that they will be changing, we expect an announcement from the cdc in the coming days. so let's take a look at what some of those efforts are. so, for example, the cdc is expected to say we are going to remove the six feet social distancing rec...

Second map shows the strain on hospitals and health care systems, plenty of red here, but we're not seeing the reimplementation of masking mandates or any major mitigation measures. is now the time to do that? >> yes, victor, first of all, thanks for having me back. you're absolutely right. there are a lot of infections out there, about 120, 130,000 cases, but we think that's a substantial under count, hundreds of thousands of infections every day. hospitalizations and particularly deaths are relatively low relative to other surges. i do think people should be doing things to reduce risk of in...

At the beginning of the COVID-19 crisis, the vast majority of states across the country implemented "stay at home" orders requiring the closure of…

More or less for most kids are going to be fine. truly is going to be a low key event but for enough kids it's not close for the deaths we're seeing. i think what happens is some of the people who want things to go back to normal sooner are afraid if they acknowledge that whole truth we won't do things like keep schools open. if you acknowledge the whole truth and take mitigation measures like testing, doing masking where it's necessary we can do the things those folks want to do. if you look at the reality that covid is worse than flu has ever been for kids, that's okay because we can do the ...

Others are making that any protection is better than what they have now, which is zero. especially when everybody is taking away masks, and other mitigation measures. and i will get another thing and, we don't have a ton of therapeutic options for the under five set. we have impatient ivy, or outpatient iv therapies. not easy to get. so i think the administration and the science is more importantly, have heard. us but the should not be parents, paris will not have access to shots probably earlier than mitchell a june. just given all the things that we are saying, but i hope that as soon as pos...