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Conclude, my goodness, omicron, more dangerous for children in and of itself, that's not necessarily the case. but, still, a concern to see these rising numbers for children. kaitlan? >> yeah, especially given children under 5 are that last group ineligible to get vaccinated yet. elizabeth cohen, thank you. for more on all of this, let's bring in the dean of brown university's school of public health, dr. ashish jha. in your view, the cdc changing this isolation period, cutting it for people who are asymptomatic, that's a key phrase in this new guidance, from ten days to five days, was this ...

We really have to ration now treatments because paxlovid is not going to be here in abundance in time for this omicron wave. and now, we have got two of our most important monoclonal antibodies knocked out, the lily and regeneron monoclonal antibodies do not work against omicron. all we have is the gsk monoclonal antibody and that is not available. so how do you ration paxlovid? how do you ration limited quantities of the gsk monoclonal antibody? and the answer is you want to make certain that person is actually infected and -- and have that test so i think that makes a lot of sense. and then,...

They were the only people to face trial, after a crowd pulled down the monument and threw it into the harbour in 2020. the uk prime minister, borisjohnson has confirmed in parliament that he plans to stick to plan b coronavirus measures in england for at least another three weeks. he said people should carry on working from home, wearing face coverings on public transport and in indoor public spaces and taking a test before going to high risk venues. but thanks to the sheer size of the omicron wave, we still need to take steps to ensure our testing capacity reaches those who need it most. we w...

>> be concerned, check. but not alarmed. i'll get back to you about that part. ask me in five minutes. president biden today met with the covid response team at the white house. he said the omicron wave that is crashing over the country now is something we should be concerned about. but not alarmed about. if we are vaccinated. the distance between concern and alarm is a fine distance. a small distance for a lot of us. the great state of maryland today for example declared a 30 day state of emergency. to mobilize the military. to help health officials respond to the virus and save maryland hosp...

African experience to the rest of the world. it pointed out the uk appears to see more severe cases of the omicron variant compared to south africa. that said, a new study from respected scientists in south africa add to the dose of good news out of south africa. it found that only 2.5% of patients with the omicron variant ended up hospitalized compared to 12.8% of patients with the previous delta variant. that is promising and tracks with all the data we've seen from people treating omicron patients. epidemiologists and virologists in south africa who have been saying for weeks the omicron va...