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Temperatures have risen over most of the southwestern United States this week, leaving locals sweating as daily record highs are threatened, notably in California's Death Valley, where temperatures might reach 120 degrees.
People are trying to figure out how to make these risk calculations as we talk about all the time. there is some pushback againsted new cdc isolation guidelines how long to stay away from people if you actually get covid. dr. fauci says you can still have small gatherings of vaccinated and boosted people together in a home, suggesting about six people is okay, but then he kind of says 40 people isn't. so where do you draw the line? >> you're right, it's all about risk mitigation. i think that what the guidelines say ten days or five days, the rule should be preventing disease. you want to avoi...
To save lives, and right now, we are doing everything that we possibly can. as you look at the challenge of vaccinations, the good news is that it's not static. those numbers are going up every day in arkansas. people are getting vaccinated as the omicron continues to spread. that risk increases, the people's understanding of the importance of it. i don't believe that the mandate is the right way to go at this time, particularly the federal mandate that should be struck down, because that's going to give us a greater worker shortage. it's going to increase the resistance for taking the vaccine...
We do this in terms of getting anti—virals to the people who most need them and that is a key decision which needs to be taken over the next period. then the third reason, and it is the one being scaled back but not yet, but will be scaled back, is using them for control. as the prime minister said, as and when the prime minister said, as and when the surveillance shows you need it, what everybody has stressed is the need to be able to stand things up again if necessary, were there to be something serious enough to need it. it is the third area where the biggest changes will occur. i don't t...
Acknowledgment that that individual owns this, i would say, evacuation that hasn't gone exceptionally well at that operational level. >> julia, we keep hearing about over the horizon intelligence efforts by the biden administration. which means from not within the country itself. will counterterrorism efforts be harder without a u.s. presence in afghanistan? >> yes. we can't deny that. over the horizon capabilities are good. they are essentially drone and airstrikes or covert operations. but they are different. and so i think the question that remains, and some people are exaggerating the thre...