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>> ale, ana, this is to do with the travel declaration, a form that everybody has to fill in before they enter into australia. it asks about your personal details. it asks about your covid vaccination, if you have had it and it also asks what your travel plans have been, the 14 days before you went to australia, so this was asking where have you been in the last 14 days, where do you plan to be in the 14 days before arrival, and do you plan to travel, and djokovic had ticked no for that particular fox, but the fact was that we now have photos that have started to emerge of him in spain and in ...

Helps push covid-19 hospitalizations to an all-time pandemic high. nearly 146,000 americans in hospitals with covid right now, double where we were two weeks ago. but some context here. these are not all hospitalizations because of covid. some are people who may have gone to the hospital for other reasons but then tested positive once they were there. some more context and this is key here. those being treated solely for covid reasons are nearly all unvaccinated. cnn's elizabeth cohen is joining us now. elizabeth, it's not all fireworks at this hearing today. there's also been some helpful new...

Icing on the cake or the straw that has broken the camel's back. we went into the surge with existing staffing shortages. so many people have left the health care profession because they are burnt out. there's been a horrific surge after surge. people have had enough. on top of that, now we're got another surge. we have all the folks that are coming in for other medical problems that they have been putting off care for, and we have our own colleagues who are getting sick. not as sick as we were two years ago. it's certainly a better place. we're not in mortal danger taking care of covid patien...

Calls to violence which have been permeating the discussion around covid. i myself have been subject to these as has almost every other figure who has spoken out publicly or tried to lead some kind of covid response. it distracts from the core issues and stops us from making progress on the things we need to dare most about which are controlling covid and getting our lives closer to normal. >> hand meantime, you're in the trenches right now as u.s. hospitalizations of people with covid hit this new pandemic record. i know staffing issues were already a strampt you say your hospital is currentl...

It is -- i know that folks are scared to go out and donate right now because of covid, but those donation centers are safe. it is so needed for people to donate blood, platelets, plasma. the rest of it -- whatever it is that you are able to give. i will shay also that we should be lifting some of the regulations that are in place that prevent some people, particularly gay men or people that spent time in the uk, those bans on donations should be lifted, especially at this moment. >> and just to be clear. is it safe for people who have had a covid infection recently to give blood? >> it is. it ...