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countries working around the clock. we're working at every border crossing, making sure no child is left unprotected. what that actually looks like in practice, for example, last week i was at a border crossing where we're seeing over 2,000 refugees coming each day at the moment. and we have a mother and baby area there. it's a closed-off area right on the border. the passport control said mothers and babies and young families have a safe space where they can come and get emergency support. they can get information about a safe journey onwards, and that's a big part of our work in romania. >> izzie, what can people do to help? how massive is this? >> yeah. well, you know, we know -- we heard last week over two-thirds of ukraine's children are now displaced into neighboring
biden's covid advisory board. good to see you again. >> good to see you, kate. >> putting aside, what do you think of the mess and confusion around masks and public transportation? do you think it was the right time to make the mandates go away? make masks optional? >> well, you know, without sounding as a contrarian or somehow trying to undercut public health, you have to know that i am a very pro-respiratory protection masking person, but that requires an n95 respirator. we know how highly infectious this virus is and to use face cloth coverings or even surgical masks leaves you still largely un unprotected and that's a big challenge. well, if you look at the mask mandate, it was all about the vast majority of people wearing face cloth coverings or surgical masks or if you're on a plane or eating or drinking, you don't have to wear it at all. i think the mask mandate has been really overstated in how much it can protect people. if everyone was required to wear an n95, you couldn't take it off
control, they have a lot of work to do to reconstruct what is here before they can in many cases as you rightly point out bring back their families, their partners, their children, and actually try to rebuild their lives after the rebuild their lives after the rebuild their lives after the rebuild their homes. i don't know if you have been able to get any verification where you are but there are reports we have had from the agencies of ukraine missile manufacturing site ot side of kyiv hit by a russian missile, do you have any verification of that? —— much outside of kyiv. i have noticed that the ukrainians are always extremely cautious about confirming attacks, the location of attacks, so things like this are often really hard to verify and it is only if you can actually get anywhere near the location and see for yourself and again the unprotected, that you can actually try and work out the truth of what has happened here but certainly had the stories of the
precious thing and do everything we can to protect those children. the two biggest weapons we have to protect them are masking and vaccination, and we should do everything we can. it's so difficult to watch this booster discussion knowing that what we're doing is further protecting the already protected and we still just haven't been able to get any leeway on the unprotected, i.e., the unprotected population. >> do you think this discussion about whether or not kids should be in schools full-time, do you think there is enough focus on the emotional and mental well-being of children and their families? >> i think -- yeah. i think everybody, independent of your political affiliation, all of us agree children need to be in school. all of us agree that children really have suffered the lack of socialization that comes with being together with their friends, being part of group activities, et cetera. i think everybody agrees with that. it's just hard to watch that we don't do everything we can to enable that to happen.
december 5th and 19th. to be clear, a few hundred per week. that is a sliver of overall hospitalizations. it is not a huge number, but if it is your child, it is everything. i wonder if you can help explain that to us and how we should understand that. a four-fold increase in a matter of two weeks. >> omicron is extraordinarily infe infectious. the biggest swath of unvaccinated people in the country are children. particularly children under 5, all of whom, are unprotected. you would expect this virus would infect children and if it infects children in large numbers, a small number will be hospitalized. if the denominator is quite large, we will see an increase in pediatric hospitalizations. thankfully, covid has largely spared our children. not entirely spared our
who are unprotected, the unvaccinated. >> interesting. dr. jha, i just spoke in the last four with congressman ro khanna of california, who suggested you would make a great choice to lead the cdc. i want you to listen to what he told me. >> i think we need someone like dr. ashish jha, who is compassionate, has been right on most of the calls, who understands that we need to be fast when it comes to masking and testing and getting that out there. there are others as well. but i do think that we need strong, empathetic leadership in that position. >> so what do you say, dr. jha? >> i would say if i had to pick a cdc director, it would be someone named rochelle walensky. i said that when she was chosen and i feel that way today. we have a fabulous director managing an extraordinarily difficult circumstance. i'm happy with the leadership we have now. >> thank you, as usual, for joining us. dr. offit, thanks fou as well.
the emergency room, would have gotten a cat scan and most likely an operation to try and take that pressure off of this. if you look at, you know, these types of head injuries across the board, people have significant head injuries who then develop some amount of bleeding on top of the brain or within the brain, it happens in about a quarter of the time. but, again, this was not just a simple blow to the head. i think that that's what we can say. it was significant. it really was an unprotected, it seems, blow to the head, maybe falling straight on his back. but still how does one get fractures above the orbits over here at the same time? was there some back and forth to the head at that time? it's tough to talk about. it's so sad, don, just the overall whatever happened here. and we may never know for certain what happened. but this would not be something that you would expect just from, again, a simple blow to the
sentinel pouring over appear they have message points in the white house. they don't want to address the reality of the danger of the drug spilling into the country. so we are deploying the national guard. we have the border strike force, but other parts of the border that are wide open and unprotected. >> todd: one of the things the president did say while the media was doing the room, we have a lot of work to do when it comes to the border. but one thing i'm sure he didn't want to go into too much for the secret flights taking migrants from the border and flogging them elsewhere throughout the country. eventually, ushered out of the room before you and fellow governors to ask questions. did anybody pressed the president on secret migrant flights? >> he was asked about the border and immigration. he didn't touch on the flights that we are also concerned about. why i say he is so could disconnected, he was very generous with his time, but he
been able to communicate with theirfamilies, haven't had been able to communicate with their families, haven't had a shift change since thursday, operating under duress, it is a recipe for disaster. you can't shut them down and we understand that several of the actors at this site are shut down but however that has consequences stopping number one you are now cutting off electric supply through ukraine which is dangerous in itself and second, even when you shut it down it is still dangerous. as fuel rods don't turn off like a lightbulb, they are a hot for months or days so you have to keep the coolant either in the reactor or the fuel ponds which are also at the site, unprotected, no containment, no protection whatsoever. if that coolant system breaks down, if you stop pumping the water in, or if an artillery shell hits one of the spent fuel ponds than you are looking at those reactor rods quickly super heating and melting down. that is how you get a meltdown, that is how you get a meltdown, that is how you get a meltdown, that is how you get a major release of
and here you have these operators operating at gunpoint under the command of a russian military officer who knows nothing about nuclear power plants. haven't been able to communicate with theirfamilies. haven't had a shift change since thursday. 0perating under duress. it is a recipe for disaster. you cannot shut them down. and we understand that several reactors at this site are shut down but, however, that has consequences. number one, you are now cutting off electrical supply for ukraine which is dangerous in itself. and second, even when you shut it down, it is still dangerous. those fuel rods don't turn off like a light bulb. they stay hot for months or days. you have to cool it either in the reactor or in the fuel ponds which are also at the site, unprotected, no containment, no protection whatsoever, if that coolant system breaks down, if you stop pumping the water in, if artllery shell hits