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Source? is that a non covid pneumonia, does he have a pneumonia from another source, brought about by cold and flu season. does he have a skin infection, that then travel to his blood, was there something else? maybe, all these things sound scary to viewers. was there urinary tract infection? i m sure this work up has actually already done, and they already probably know the answer to it. the fact that he s already well probably transiting out of the icu in the next 48 to 72 hours, if not sooner, are all good prognostic signs here. early treatment, early intervention, and an early rebound, rachel, are all great predictors of getting out of the icu and getting back home. now, they re saying after two two days of treatment, his white blood cell count is trending down, how should we understand that? that s a great sign. that s the clinical symptoms that i went through, heart rate, respiratory rate, fever, and then there is what we get on our lab values, so we get that lab culture of o ....
Right now. cases, hospitalizations, trending down. we ve seen this movie before as we were just saying. but is the worst of the delta surge finally behind us, do you think? well if you just look at the shape of the curve, you would say we went over the top, which was a terrible top and we re starting downward now, but i can t be absolutely assured how steep that downward slope will be or whether we might encounter another bump. so this is not the time for people to let down their guard. we are in a circumstance where there are more people gathering indoors. cold weather s coming. schools are in place. so it is an opportunity for this virus and we should think of the virus as the enemy, not anybody else, to have a party and to take advantage of those moments where we begin to think, okay, we are not yet okay. no people are tired of hearing that. i know they re tired of having to wear masks indoors. i know they re tired of all of the arguments going on about masks in schools, which cer ....
Pfizer just submitted for that vaccine and how it affects young children. the delta variant is the most common form of covid in the u.s. there are signs that the delta surge we have been following so closely may be slowing. the good news here, all these numbers that we regularly look at, new covid-19 cases, and most importantly the number of people getting sick enough to be hospitalized, those in icu beds are down from their september highs. joining us now is michael osterholm, who is director of the center for infectious disease research and policy at the university of minnesota. good to have you with us. when we look at those numbers and we talk about, we focus on the hospitalizations and the deaths here. the fact that those numbers are trending down, we heard a lot of optimism from officials and experts over the last week or two saying we are on the downward slope of this surge. do you share some of that optimism? well, clearly on a national level we are on the downward slope. u ....
To try and treat an infection, but it s another tool in our toolbox. we re never going to be able to vaccinate everyone in our country. we re not going to be able to penetrate folks who are so insistent. having a very anti-viral drug as this drug appears to be, we ll go a long way in reducing the mortality rate even further. we mentioned as you mentioned in the lead-in, we ve lost 700,000 americans now, and 200,000 of those folks have died since vaccines have been available almost to everyone in this country, and every one of those deaths is unnecessary. so even though the news is great for the anti-viral agent, really the message the people need to receive is get vaccinated. no one needs to die from this virus. you know, you see the numbers in terms of hospitalizations, cases, they re trending down, but they are still climbing in some countries. is enough being done to make ....
Hospitalizations are trending down, and death rates are projected to as well. and here in new york, a group of public school employees is asking the u.s. supreme court to put a stop to the city s vaccine mandate. court papers filed thursday, lawyers basically arguing instead of allowing these employees to opt out and not receive a vaccine and get weekly testing, instead the lawyers argue that the mandate, quote, forces unvaccinated public school employees to go on unpaid leave for nearly a year. they go on to argue that it places an unconstitutional burden on some of the public school teachers here. jason carroll, cnn, new york. well, the debate over masks has tempers flaring in one alaska city. they wanted to hear from members of the community before imposing a mask mandate due to rising covid cases. on day three of testimony, four people were arrested for disrupting the meeting while most people opposed the mandate, ....