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Diplomatically. i asked ioc move the olympics. that's not going to happen. i don't think we should punish the athletes but i think they're going to stand up solidarity against the human rights violations and take home the gold, too. like jesse owens showed hitler the arian nation was not superior, show the chinese that we're going to take home the gold and not them. >> thank you very much and oh, happy birthday and happy 60 there to you. the biden administration has a new plan for americans to get rapid covid tests but will they come in time to combat the omicron wave? we'll talk to the surg...

Other service providers will be allowed to reopen. and the french court is suspended paris' strict outdoor mask mandate. the tribunal warned that it's not only necessary but proportion to health. i'm joined by cnn's melissa bell following all of this from paris. you know that ruling on masks, i was stunned that you have to wear, by law, masks in paris outside. i know now that's been overturned. but it certainly does indicate that level of fatigue, right, right across europe, for a lot of these restrictions? >> reporter: that's right. and restrictions that are becoming long-term ones. nearly tw...

Sick. the cdc also recommending that students sit three feet apart in those classrooms when they're there in person. cdc director walensky talked about this omicron wave, and how those -- some early research shows that those who have been infected with the delta variant may have some -- or those who have been infected with the omicron variant may have protection against the delta variant but it doesn't go both ways. if you've had the delta variant you can still be susceptible to omicron. >> liz, interesting information there. i really appreciate that. i'm going to leave that there for a second...

Unvaccinated people? omicron versus delta, omicron versus the earlier variance. is omicron less severe both in vaccinated and unvaccinated people or are unvaccinated people essentially opened this in a way that there is really no mercy for them from the virus? >> yes, two things are going. on first of all, there's more breakthrough infections and there was with delta. so that means we have a bigger pull of vaccinated people getting invested. but there is no question about it that their levels of illness is very low. after that breakthrough, compared to what we saw with delta for unvaccinated p...

Concern that they could get sicker and are at a higher risk for spreading it to others. jim? >> understood. interesting to watch. elizabeth cohen, thank you very much. all right, joining me now to answer your and my questions, dr. paul offit, a member of the fda's vaccine advisory committee. great to have you back. first, big picture. we talked a couple of weeks ago very early in the omicron wave, i'm curious what you learned since then in looking at the data from south africa, israel, what we have begun to see in europe and also here about how serious illness omicron causes. have you learne...