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did they have covid? suspected covid. that's what happening, isn't it, across the board. covid has disrupted our normal activity and it has had impact on the waiting list. this is the hospital's intensive care unit. these beds are needed for patients following major surgery as well as those with serious illnesses. how many covid patients are there in here at the moment? so, the numbers have been dropping over the last few weeks, happily. so we're down to five i think today, which is the lowest we've been for months. dr billyard's seen a big difference here in covid numbers since the start of the pandemic. so most of your patients are in critical care for other reasons? yes, absolutely. and what sort of numbers are we talking? so we have about 30 non—covid patients in critical care at the moment. the vaccine and new treatments have helped reduce the number of covid patients needing these beds. but there are some and they appear to be getting younger. what sort of people are ending up in, err, the covid critical care area? the key headline is unvaccinated. the vast majori

linked to covid are from covid or how many are with covid but they had other co-morbidities, do you have that breakdown? >> yes, of course, with omicron, we're following that very carefully. our death registry, of course, takes a few weeks -- takes a few weeks to collect. of course, omicron has just been with us for a few weeks but those data will be forthcoming. >> laura: she completely avoids the question again.ga he wasn't talking about omicron, which is relatively new. we have almost two years of data, and they still can't tell us what deaths are really covid caused deaths versus three or four co-morbidity caused deaths? >> these true. i had a chance to go over this with scott atlas, another one of your contributors on the medical scientific side and scott believes that our officials, the cdc officials and nih officials, they are simply not competent in managing this rapid flow of data. what we know from sources actually on the cdc web side but also the italies have recoded their death, 10% or fewer of all the deaths is purely driven by covid-19. italians think it's 3%. the rest is l

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our rare access inside the covid icu in a hospital that's seen a 900% jump in covid cases since thanksgiving >>> and new information tonight on getting those free covid tests promised by president biden. >>> also tonight, the supreme court hearing arguments over the president's vaccine mandates the signal that the justices gave on how they may rule. >>> the three men convicted in the murder of ahmaud arbery sentenced how long they will spend behind bars, and the emotional words in court today from arbery's mother. >>> the major winter storm slamming the east coast up to a foot of snow, dangerous road conditions and next the bitter cold moving in the deadly crackdown kazakhstan's president issuing a shoot-to-kill order. to quell violent protesters the new crisis spilling out on to the world stage. >>> a second tennis star joining the world's number one player in detention in australia over their vaccination status. >>> and the tributes pouring in for a legendary oscar-winning trailblazer. >>> this is nbc "nightly news" with lester holt. >>> good evening many of us have taken some comfort in t

in fact, there hasn't been a covid death in china for months and supporters of zero covid say that that makes the case. they also point to the chinese economy. official data shows that china's gdp grew by over 8% last year — that exceeded most expectations. there are, though, caveats. my colleague mariko oi explains. now, china's strict zero covid policy has meant that some major cities started to go back into lockdown from last month, due to the omicron variant, and we have yet to see the full impact of that. for now, though, china believes its zero covid strategy has worked, for the economy and for public health. but sooner, rather than later, it faces a decision — how long to stick with zero covid? and it may have its hand forced. we know omicron is highly transmissible and variants pose a challenge to zero covid policies. we've seen that in australia. the arrival of the delta variant forced the government to change tack. prime minister scott morrison abandoned zero covid last year, saying that australia would now live with the virus. or there's new zealand. while visiting from o

deaths from covid or deaths from covid versus with covid. now watch this response. >> do you know how many of the 836,000 deaths in the u.s. linked to covid are from covid, or with covid but they had other issues you have that breakdown? >> yes of course with alma curran we are following that very carefully, our deaf registry takes a few weeks, takes a few weeks to collect across omicron just been with us a few weeks but that data will be forthcoming. >> laura: she completely avoids the question again. he wasn't talking about omicron is relatively new. we have almost two years of data. and they still can't tell us what deaths are really covid cause deaths versus. >> that is true and a chance to go over this with scott, another one of your contributors on the medical scientific side and scott believes that our officials, the cdc officials, that they are just not confident in managing this rapid flow of data. but we know from sources actually on the cdc website but also -- it is clearly, basically 10% or fewer of all of the deaths is purely dr

covid free. telephone networks on the island have been restored but the main concern is the fresh water shortage. families in one of the bay area's tongan communities say it's hard to help when they cannot get in touch with their families. >> i just am praying for them, you know. they made an announcement in church yesterday to pray for the people on the island. >> and local markets are putting together supplies to put on the island when they are able to communicate with them again. >>> and we will speak with our infectious disease expert about the covid infections, coming up next. >>> i am chief meteorologist, jeff ranieri. we are tracking showers over central california and i will let you know what that means for us when we come back. this is elodia. she's a recording artist. 1 of 10 million people that comcast has connected to affordable internet in the last 10 years. and this is emmanuel, a future recording artist, and one of the millions of students we're connecting throughout the next 10. t

and if you are covid positive du only care for people who are covid positive. certainly we hope it doesn't get to that situation but we have to tir ca for people in the hospital. and this is a last-ditch effort to enable them to get the best care, to it to give a chance to trillion get through it. >> i want to turn to a word freding flu rhona the idea that you could flu and coronavirus virus, is there such a thing. >> it sounds like a disney character. but yes, we've seen a handful of cases where people infected both with influenza virus and covid-19. the virus, the coronavirus that causes this syndrome. so it it happens, right now they are both treatable with the pfizer pill, a tamiflu like drug, where looking for it, the pcr test people get look for multiple different viruses. >> dr. agus n lilia piece we heard over 5,000 schools closed down in-person learning because of concerns of covid. what do we need to know moving forward when it comes to keeping chish safe and in school. >> closing an entire school is a drastic measure. the hope is we don't have to go

it is embedded with the way it is handling covid. if the spread is not limited, if it is not contained, what impact do you think that will have on china's global image, when it has been so adamant it is going to maintain a covid zero policy? >> china is facing this dilemma because it has been closing the border for so long. now it allows more athletes and relevant personnel to come in, but it is still a very close country compared to what we had two years ago. the policy is the central government in china are making will have a different image from before because miscommunication happens in this situation. we have seen the words of some of my foreign friends, the exodus of foreigners from china because either they have not been seeing their family for two years, they just have to, and the cost of that would be they need to leave their job in china, or they stay, but they have to endure this long time of loneliness and the potential change of visa policies and things have become quite difficult for china. the olympics is only a small

the surgeon covid cases is being felt at covid test sites and it labs that process the pcr tests . ktvu jana katsuyama got a tour of a covid testing lab in berkeley to show us how they process thousands of tests every day. u c. berkeley's innovative genomics institute. we met the covid testing lab director dr petros giannakopoulos. we can process over 4000 samples a day, he says. they've seen a big increase in demand for pcr covid tests. he took us inside the i g lab, which analyzes those pcr tests that are considered the gold standard, but take more time to process than at home antigen tests. so what arrives is like literally hundreds and hundreds of samples all at once. and these machines that do all the work. they're called liquid handlers. they basically process these hundreds of samples that are on these plates, pcr or polymerase chain reaction test can detect even small amounts of the coronavirus by amplifying the samples as many as 35 times . we have a fully automated laboratory that has robots that do all of the work. most pcr test can be analyzed within a day or average tu

to covid, heading into a period of deeper— to covid, heading into a period of deeper restrictions. take to covid, heading into a period of deeper restrictions.— to covid, heading into a period of deeper restrictions. take your pick of national parallels. _ deeper restrictions. take your pick of national parallels. he _ deeper restrictions. take your pick of national parallels. he makes . deeper restrictions. take your pick of national parallels. he makes a i of national parallels. he makes a very good point, but i suspect a lot of people will have an emotional response to this and say, if she is obeying the rules, our prime minister didn't. such is life, she said, noting that thousands of new zealanders have had far more devastating disruption. thank you both. in europe, there are millions of cases of covid every week. in china, there are very few. and china's commitment to its zero covid strategy remains as strong as ever. translation: china's overall situation remains stable - and regional clusters of locally transmitted cases can be effectively controlled within a short period

and that has led to high demand for covid testing. it is not just sick people. >> who are looking for the tests. you have students going back to school. people going back to work after the holidays, folks who have been traveling some internationally. they're all driving up demand. and since take on tests have become almost impossible to find testing sites are often the only option. >> well, it was hard. this month because of the surge that usually it's not. but it's definitely gotten worse. so it's hard to get an appointment. i luckily this is guest this week. >> the cdc has also updated its guidance regarding rapid test today. they're now suggesting if you've tested positive for covid and are using rapid tests to see if you're still infected, you should wait towards the end of the 5 day isolation period to do so. if your test result is negative, you canendure isolation but continue to wear a well-fitting high quality mask around other people at home and in public until day 10. if you test positive, it is being recommended that you co

to all of america during the covid surge. >> you can still get covid. it's highly unlikely that you become seriously ill. president biden continuing his push to get people to wear masks and get fully vaccinated. the president says unvaccinated people are needlessly filling hospital beds and emergency rooms across the country. here's nbc's chris pollone. >> because what we know is this. >> president biden meeting with the white house covid response team for the first time in the new year. urging americans to wear masks and get vaccinated to head off the worst of the omicron variant surge. >> you can still get covid, but it's highly unlikely, very unlikely that you'll become seriously ill. >> the administration doubling the order of pfizer's antiviral pills to treat 20 million people. 4 million treatments expected by the end of the month. >> they're a game changer. they have the potential to dramatically alter the impact of covid-19. >> monday, the nation tallied 1 million new covid cases. the cdc says omicron accounts for 95%. >> the next four to six wee

had zero symptoms of covid, zero. it's in the medical literature. throughout the spring of 2020, except while i was in the white house in the summer, late summer, early fall of 2020, we knew this because we were defining covid differently on the basis of simply a positive test. so there was a complicated system of reimbursement and other incentives of these people were called covid hospitalizations. ten symptoms of a disease, that's not the reason obviously for being hospitalized. he just happened to test positive. this is always a remembrance for me of how it was. when i was talking about the risk factors to the task force, the people on the task force didn't understand, didn't know or simply deny the facts. we know now it's two-thirds of deaths of americans from covid are people with six or more comorbidities. yet the message was out there that anybody with hypertension, high blood pressure, was at high risk for covid. that was false. we knew that. i showed the peepers to the people and task force back in the summer

they have had covid and no cognitive changes. we did have dry sessions of these people and studies and cognitive tests. we asked these individuals if they were willing to do a spinal tap. over the half of the people did yes, we compared the spinal fluid. compared it to those who had cognitive changes and those who did not. what we found was that there was a lot of abnormality. 37% who had cognitive cages after covid had abnormalities in their spinal fluid compared to -- 77 percent who had cognitive changes after covid had abnormalities in their spinal fluid. what we are noticing is that general signs in the brain fluid are pointing to abnormalities in the immune system or inflammatory response. some abnormalities that suggest elevated inflammation in the brain, other abnormalities that may suggest systemic immune activation. or maybe even inflammation within the brain compartment. we need to do more research. >> is it a relationship or a direct causal line? between the changes and impairments that people are reporting? >> it is a

it is covid safer. you won't catch covid from us. what you can catch those a shower or 2 and it looks folks up in santa rosa points in the far north bay beginning to see a few sprinkles. just a straight ahead promise. so we are and the commute this morning. i can attest it was easy. it was quiet friday light. i didn't have any raindrops. i didn't need to the wipers. now at all. and hopefully you can get through your morning ride without either depending on how quick or slow that rain is moving. >> let's find out. good morning right now. good morning. and that's right. we've been tracking your forecast today. >> we did have a few drizzles this morning. so certain parts of the bay area. we're a little wet. we're looking at the tarmac here at sfo. just a few damp spots out there. but we're tracking that storm system right now. you can see to the north of us starting to ride through into santa rosa at this hour. we're going to be tracking that. it's not going to stay there. it's going to quickly continue to move southward throughout the

to covid-19. is formally an assistant federal defender who served the united states district for the eastern district of washington and idaho. she received her law degree from the university of iowa, college of law or she editor-in-chief of the iowa law review. i'm just a scene with the u.s. government accountability office where she leads the work on justice and law enforcement issues. her portfolio includes federal prison systems, federal law enforcement oversight and training, civil liberties and civil rights in the federal judiciary. twenty plus years she also worked on issues related to social security reform, disabilities, k-12 and higher education. doctor gooden received her phd and masters degree in economics from the university of nebraska lincoln and a bachelors degree in economics at the university of houston. kelly is a political commentator and senior contributor at america's greatness. ms. kelly covers a political and policy issues. she is an author and former political to officehold

kumasi: classroom closures because of covid. set to start distance learning, but another local school handed a much worse situation. reggie: put away the pocketbook for at home covid tests. the new rule that will cover your costs completely. do not put them totally away. [laughter] just --just --just --just --jus- get reimbursed. good morning, you are watching abc 7 news, live on abc 7, hulu live, and wherever you stream. we are going to start with the nice forecast. drew: a lot of people were telling me it is beautiful, they loved it. we do it again today. the mild pattern continues. his ability, we had issues in the north bay. sin arose improved, we were down to a mild visibility and we have improved to three miles. fog will linger in parts of sonoma county for the next hour or so. over the city, good visibility. many clear skies. a lot of sunshine today, a few clouds mixing in in the afternoon. we go back to the 60's. reggie: california lawmakers will debate the latest attempt to create the nation's first universal health car

but they're altogether here because they've got covid. one of them is dennis, who had an underlying lung problem before he caught the virus. well, considering i was near death's door, they brought me back. i feel good. i feel really good. i had two lung collapses, they brought me back twice. adam and jade, who run the ward, say staffing pressures are creating added stress. we've had quite acute staff shortages, a lot of staff off sick and isolating. patient wise, i think the numbers are increasing, but currently, we're not at full capacity yet. it'sjust the fear of the unknown. you don't know which way it's going to go. even though right now it feels slightly better than it did this time last year. so, what might happen now? there was a chance to find out more at the downing street briefing. would you say it's now unlikely or highly unlikely that further restrictions will be introduced in england? i would say we have a good chance of getting through the omicron wave without the need for further restrictions and without the need, certainly

not related to covid-19. anchor: chris, when we say that starting -- when we say it is time to treat covid as an illness that we have to deal with because it will stay longer , it sounds easier on paper. >> i think it is important to see the situation through the lens of the here and now and not the lens of last year. this time last year, taking the u.k. as an example, the number of people dying every day was about 1500 at one point. and the number of people in hospital accounted for nearly half of the beds have in our national health service. we could not be more different now where other we do have people in hospital, probably half of them are in hospital with coronavirus, not because of coronavirus which is completely different from last year. and the number of people losing their lives is a fraction of where we were. and the reason that has happened is we have been able to transform the condition from what was lethal to some into almost trivial for everyone and that is thanks to vaccines and we have other

with someone with covid. people who do not develop symptoms should get tested. if you test positive you should begin isolation. people who test negative might and quarantine and continue to wear well fitting mask when around others for an additional five days. these recommendations are consistent with over 100 studies collected over the past two years indicating people are most infectious during the first few days of infection and significantly less infectious six to ten days after infection. icore part of cdc's mission iso translate signs into recommendations for best practices and real-world circumstances. over the holidays, we saw growing surge of omicron and took swift science -based action to address a very real possibility of staffing shortages and hospitals and other essential areas of the workforce.to public safety, public, grocery stores and others. shortages could have an proven to have dire public health consequences. the guidance for what we currently know about transmission and real-world circums

our covid school dashboard. head to nbcbayarea.com. to go your home page. it will tell you the information for your child's school. >>> stuck on a shipment with a possible outbreak on board. can you imagine? we did it a couple years ago, now it's happening again. the cdc is telling people to avoid cruise ships because of omicron. what about those already at sea? a princess cruise ship will dock tomorrow in san francisco and some say there's an outbreak on board. this couple tells us they've been isolating in their room on the ship for the past several days. they separated themselves after learning the shipment's enter teenagers were quarantining because of an outbreak. the couple from mountain view said the view hasn't followed promised precautions. he even called the cdc to warn them. said he finally got help from a public health worker. >> he finally found something called a mega event. he was able to take a report and give me a tracking member so that's the only thing i have. especially now that they're denyi

loud and clear — covid is serious. some of the shifts that i have had are the toughtest i've ever had. and the race to vaccinate the public. i got the letter yesterday, and i'm booked in today. i three, two, one! welcome back, everyone! cheering lockdown ends. i can literally not stress how much i missed being able to go out. but there's the threat of a new variant. there is a tidal wave of omicron coming. the year began with intensifying pressure on the nhs. covid infections were rising, and there was a worrying increase in hospital admissions. the second wave of the virus was going to prove more deadly than the first. with covid cases rising, the new school term began with confusion. some teachers and children stayed at home. there's 21 members of staff that have opted not come into school, because they would consider it to be an unsafe environment. in my school, that's led to nursery, year 3—4 not coming to school. the empty classrooms were a warning of what was coming. another lockdown announced in the uk's natio

>> california covid numbers, moving in the wrong direction. how the state and bay area cities are trying to stop the spread and fast. plus. >> i had to talk to a lot of layers before anything really started happening. >> we hear from the fairness whistleblower after the jury handed down a guilty verdict for the ceo, elizabeth holmes. what he says he would have detailed on the witness stand if called. and what a difference a month makes. a new look at the snow pack from space. good afternoon, i'm alan. our top story at 3:00. streaming on cbs and bay area. california recording its highest covid case and positivity rates since the start of the pandemic. within 20% of test came back positive as of yesterday's count. that is almost 10% higher than a week ago. even with an 81% vaccination rate, san francisco is seeing a surgeon cases. an average of 829 per day as of december 27. he is a look at the omicron increase compared to the summer delta surge. and last winter surge. a much sharper rise now with omicron much more contagious. but, hospitalizati

overall there are at least 1,700 patients with covid in the region. santa clara county, the number one spot with the highest number, 461. >> well garvin, leaders in santa clara have had enough one one day after we showed how much more testing that that the county is doing that health care providers. county leaders issued a warning, kizer and sutter need to step up testing efforts or else. damian trujillo sflans in the update to his exclusive report. >> reporter: if you've tried booking a test in santa clara county the last couple weeks you're likely one of the frustrated ones. appointments are booked up for days if not weeks. and the numbers we obtained hint that's because kaiser patients like linda can't seem to get a test through kaiser. they lean on county. >> reresorted to the county going to the fair grounds. >> leaders say cases like hers are strange the county system. >> it's not reasonable for the county health system to provide such a disproportionate share of the testing and vaccinations. >> county leaders used this news conference today to

we'll explain. >> and as covid cases surge, the u.s. supreme court takes up a case focused on the biden administration's effort to slow the spread vaccine mandates. new year, new start. and now comcast business is making it easy to get going with the ready. set. save. sale. get started with fast and reliable internet and voice for $64.99 a month with a 2-year price guarantee. it's easy... with flexible installation and backing from an expert team, 24/7. and for even more value, ask how to get up to a $500 prepaid card. get a great deal for your business with the ready. set. save. sale today. comcast business. powering possibilities. >> vaccine requirements that affect. more than 80 million americans were discussed before the nation's highest court. today, the supreme court justices will decide whether to allow the biden administration to enforce a vaccine or testing requirement for large employers and a separate vaccine mandate for most health care workers. our washington, dc correspondent jessi tenure has details. good get is the first

i have gotten covid and gotten over covid. wearing a mask, washing hands constantly, you know, where my mask out in public. when i was my taste or smell, i smoke marijuana and i'm cured. host: let's go to chuck in dolores, colorado. hello. caller: good morning, pedro. thank you for c-span. i came down with the virus in 2019, december of 2019. i went to visit my mother. she was ill. my mom and dad worked over the world. people would stop in and visit from all over the world, so they were probably patient -- he was probably patient 1, or one of them. anyway, i brought it back to colorado, isolated myself, but my wife still came down with it. we both came down with long-haulers. she. still has memory problems. -- she still has memory problems. i could barely breathe. i was on methadone for pain management for my back. and i took a blood oxygen count and my blood oxygen was down to 74, so i titrated off the methadone. and i can equate that with having covid. every joint in my body ached. i went through methadone withdrawals becaus

out of the 20 listed as covid hospitalizations last week ten were admitted for covid out of the 20 cases reported to the cdc as covid-19 hospitalizations, three of them were women that were asymptomatic that were delivering babies? >> that's right. if we don't understand the distinction between the people who might be in icu on a ventilator truly there because of covid-19 we might over estimate the burden of omicron. >> reporter: now doctors are calling on the cdc to specify how patients who test positive should actually be counted. >> we have simply been reporting patients who test positive for covid in one big bucket and those numbers go to the cdc. that's what we've really got to change >> it is fascinating but given everything you just said, there are still hospitals very much overwhelmed, right? >> absolutely. the experts we talked to said there is still a significant crisis still happening within hospitals but so much of that crisis has more to do with the staffing shortage and health care workers testing positive for omicron than it does with the severity of the disease. >> intere

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google “covid test near me.” and to help lead our federal testing program, i've talked -- excuse me, i've tapped dr. tom -- i hope i'm pronouncing it -- inglesby. correct? is that right, jeff? and he is one of the world's leading infectious disease experts, and i'm grateful for his willingness to help tackle this challenge. third thing -- today, we'll discuss our hospital response efforts. just since thanksgiving, over 800 military and other federal emergency personnel have been deployed to 24 states, tribes, and territories, including over 350 military doctors, nurses, and medics, helping staff the hospitals who are in short supply. this is on top of the more than 14,000 national guard members that are active -- activated in 49 states. these deployments, at my direction and thanks to the american rescue plan, are fully paid for by the federal government. we've shipped over 5.5 million pieces of personal protective equipment -- gloves, gowns, masks -- to protect frontline healthcare workers. we're shipping more t

home covid test before ending isolation. if the test is positive people should isolate until day 10. however the cdc stopped short of requiring the test. some medical experts say that leaves a gap where those who do not test themselves after five days could end isolation and still be positive. make a recommendation and the recommendation should be that after five days, if you are going to be in a high risk situation, you should take a test before you leave the home. the cdc still recommends people wear masks in public for five days after isolating in atlanta too often, serrie fox news well , a new study finds that latinas are much more likely to contract coronavirus during pregnancy. researchers tested the blood of 4500 pregnant women, according to the center research study, latinos were more than twice as likely to be exposed to covid. during pregnancy. researchers say that this increases the likelihood of adverse outcomes such as maternal mortality. for clamps, e excuse me, preterm birth and stillbirth. panic women were st

infecting our non covid patients. our non-covid co workers for some people. maybe they just got the cold. that's well and good. but we never know what else will develop after that home. >> the guidance from the cdph does say that before facilities implement those temporary changes, they must have made every attempt to bring in additional staff and considered modifications to staffing. california has put in tough new restrictions on nursing homes in response to the omicron variant under the state's health orders, visitors must now show a negative test. in addition to prove that their vaccinated with a booster, the new rules are in place to february 7th at that could be extended. well, as covid cases continue to surge across the country. the white house says help is on the way. administration officials say they're working to provide free rapid test as well as numerous testing numerous treatments for covid in the weeks to come. but as anna wiernicki reports, some fears that the help is too late. house returns on monday from winter recess and already lawmakers sa

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covid cases across the state continue to surge. california announces an extension of the statewide indoor mask mandate. good evening, everybody. welcome in to kron 4 news at 5. i'm grant lotus and i'm vicki liviakis. california's indoor mask mandate will last at least into mid february. so says the state's top health administrator doctor mark ghaly during a teleconference today. he also spoke of concerns regarding hospitals and address the upcoming super bowl in los angeles. for now, that's still on kron four's. dan kerman listened in and joins us live with the details. good evening, dan. good evening, doctor. galley begin his news conference by stating the obvious that omicron is here. he went on to say that. >> many of the things the state has done to tackle covid over the last few years. those things have work. they've put california near the top of how to handle this and that will not be abandoned. that's one of the reasons they are keeping that mask mandate. wearing a mask while in indoor public places will continue at least f

delivering humanitarian aid under covid conditions - aid under covid conditions means you how to abide by the tongan government's isolation requirements, so it does make the whole situation a bit challenging, but we have identified a way in which we can provide aid within 72 hours with contactless consideration. we are also mindful that tonga doesn't have any active covid cases right now, so they are being quite vigilant as they respond domestically, and as they deal with countries like australia, new zealand, the us, the uk and france, who are helping in their humanitarian aid effort. . helping in their humanitarian aid effort-— helping in their humanitarian aideffort. . , , ., ., aid effort. that must be a real challenge. _ aid effort. that must be a real challenge. i — aid effort. that must be a real challenge, i can _ aid effort. that must be a real challenge, i can imagine, - aid effort. that must be a reall challenge, i can imagine, while you have the clock ticking, basically, because so many people have been affected. water, one of the big aspects, trying to get people clean

the headlines: an easing of covid testing rules in england — as people without symptoms, will no longer need to confirm a positive lateral test with a pcr test. the nhs is under strain from coronavirus — two hospitals in bristol declare �*critical incidents" due to rising pressures on services — and 17 hospitals in greater manchester put some non urgent surgery on hold. in scotland, the government considers a reduction in the time people have to isolate from ten to seven days. we're expecting an update by first minister nicola sturgeon to the scottish parliament in the next hour. i will report on the continuing rise in covid cases and i will outline our approach to managing the pandemic at this stage and i will set out the changes to self isolation and testing and while we are not proposing any additional measures at this stage, i will confirm that existing protections and guidance will remain in place for the coming week pending further review. finally given that omicron may not be the last new covid variant that we face, i will also signal some longer term work to consider the a

plea to the public. >> we may be all done with covid, covid is not done with us. due to the omicron variant, our case rates have never been higher and hospitalizations beginning to climb. widespread transmission with unvaccinated groups and some transmission among vaccinated individuals. >> county's positivity rate reached high of 16.5% this week, all-time high. when it comes to schools, the order does not apply to normal classroom or recess activities. bay area hospitals are make changes. ian cull has the new protocols and talked with the head of emergency department. >> reporter: valley medical center in san jose putting a pause on adult elective surgeries that require a patient to stay overnight. goal to keep the beds open for patients as covid infections rise. stanford is also delaying some elective surgeries. >> we're reviewing every patient case by case, to see who could be delayed, taking into effect their medical urgency and individualized condition. >> reporter: in the south bay, number of patients doubled from 36 to 66 but far fewer than the winter surge

and this comes as the nation grapples with another surge in covid cases and covid-related hospitalizations. the average number of new u.s. covid cases per day is now back above the 1 million mark. >> school districts in the bay area statewide scrambling to try to keep the covid numbers down by using at-home testing kits. and offering new test sites. sharon is live at one of those test sites for us. busy there this morning, sharon? >> reporter: yes, laura. you can really sense the urgency out here. 28,000 students went back to school yesterday here in the west contra costa unified school district. still this morning, after 8:00, during school hours we saw a steady stream of parents bringing in their children to get tested for covid. the school district has opened up several new test sites this week for students and staff. the district says just last thursday, it received 15,000 at-home test kits that they quickly distributed over new year's weekend on sunday. the idea was for students to do the rapid at-home test to see if they caught covid during winter break and quarantine if so instead o

to covid. here is a closer look at the $2.7 billion proposal fighting covid which his office expects to largely be reimbursed by federal government. 1.2billion is set to expand testing by extending clinic hours and sending rapid tests to schools and homes. 614billion for upping staffing at vaccination sites and hospitals, 583 million to continue vaccine education campaigns including combating misinformation. his spending plan allots millions and billions of dollars on drought prevention, wildfire suppression, climate change, homelessness, and many other programs. today's budget layout, newsom said he wants health coverage for all immigrants. this would make california the first state to cover everyone under its medicaid plan regardless of immigration status. len. >> justin, thank you. >>> we brought you the news conference live on cbsn bay area. watch 24/7 streaming on cbsn bay area or the kpix5 news app. >>> the cdc is urging u.s. citizens not to travel to canada saying even fully vaccinated t

the website is covid test dot gov. the white house says orders will be accepted starting on wednesday, january 19 supplies will be limited to just 4 test for home. the tests are free, including there's no shipping fee but do not expect a rapid turnaround on the orders. the white house says tests will typically ship within 7 to 12 days of ordering starting tomorrow. private health insurance companies will be required to cover the costs of at home covid tests. the biden administration announced this change in order to lower the costs and make testing more convenient health insurance providers will be required to cover the costs of up to 8 at home tests per person per month. >> meanwhile, open enrollment for covered. california is open through january 31st. experts say with covid cases surging, it's important to make sure you have health insurance because while vaccines are free, hospitalizations are not. if you sign up this month, coverage begins on february. 1st in the south bay, health officials say that with covid cas

can china really get to zero covid? >> i think what we are seeing is a zero covid strategy for china is becoming less tenable by the week. they have been able to pull it off, but what has changed is the omicron variant is so much more transmissible that it is easier to spread than prior variants. we know vaccines create immunity but immunity is waning in china. the vaccines predominately used in china are less effective, especially without a booster, so vaccines are not as good at preventing infections. they still will likely be good at preventing bad outcomes, but the idea that increasing vaccinations to prevent all transmissions and getting to a zero covid state is possible is not the case anymore. laura: in the united states we had a million cases yesterday, but what about hospitalizations and deaths? do we have the tools to get through this, as president biden said today? >> we do. the one reason for optimism with the omicron wave is that it does seem to lead to milder disease. but the sheer number of cases, averagi

of covid. the washington post also reports that biden administration plans to set up a website where people can request at home test kits, several university of california schools and cal state university has announced plans to delay in person courses. due to the covid-19 surge. i think that is a really good move from the university, and it really makes us get relief, but on the other hand is a little sad that we cannot see. our friends again at class. ahead of 10 30 elissa harrington will have a full report on students uncertain return from winter break. new at tennessee. hp says it has recovered dozens of items believed to be stolen from the home depot. it started with the traffic stop by san ramon. police on new year's day. officers suspected of possible retail theft connection and say chp took over the case. chp says the person arrested is a known booster or shoplifter. the suspect allegedly stole all 93 items you see here from home depot, the merchandise is valued at more than $3000, also

of covid. but those are the same people needed in hospitals to take care of patients. the u.s. is caught in a bind in terms of what does it do to take care of people who are really sick when you have people who are mildly ill but who are absently critical workers are caring for those people. i think there is an attempt to adapt to reality. i also think that has proven very frustrating and very confusing for a lot of people who are watching guidelines change through a blend of science and need every couple of months. people just get fatigued with trying to keep up with the stuff. romaine: very confusing for a lot of people. and in fairness to cdc and the government, they are dealing with something changing quickly so they have to change guidance as those changes come. drew armstrong, helping us kick off this conversation. we are going to continue that conversation right now with dr. jessica justman, professor over at the columbia school of public health. jessica, i want to start off with testing

still 2% below where it was during covid. not everyone has rushed back to the workforce despite the fact that there has been a big rebound in gdp growth in the u.s.. in australia the employment outlook is much stronger than where it was before covid. the participation rate in the u.s. has further room to increase as well, a lot of people have decided to permanently remove themselves from the workforce because they are concerned about the virus or because they have to care for people or children who are too young to get vaccinated at this stage. a few different things going on i keeping employment below where it was before covid in the u.s. there is upside to go in the employment growth and in the participation rate in the u.s.. we continue to see that job growth in the u.s. will grow in the next three months and i think that is why the fed may be rushing. definitely more hawkish than what we have seen the past few months. they might decide to wait until june if the labor force job growth is not as strong as they were expectin

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there's a lot of investment, not only in improving the vaccines that we have for covid, for saars covid 2, but a lot of work, i mentioned in my opening statement is looking at the tools of basic and applied science to develop the next generation of vaccines, particularly universal coronavirus vaccines, or at least universal sars covid 2 vaccines so we won't be chasing after the next variant. that we'll be able to have a vaccine with the capability of responding to every iteration of a variant and there's a lot of work going on with that right now but again when you're doing basic research as you can appreciate more than anyone, that usually isn't very well rick uginized by the public. >> point well made. in terms of testing and parallel thought and dr. woodcock, maybe you can address it. testing, at retail, maybe as high as 22 or $23 in some places. i keep reading about different approaches to testing. that we might find a way to do reduce the cost of testing down to -- instead of $15, could be 15 cents. at least for the chemical side of it. i realize you have to put in packaging. >> su

government monday dates for covid vaccines. we'll discuss the pushback we're seeing on covid restrictions. >>> as we count down to the beijing olympic games, we'll look back on the two years since the chinese authorities locked down the city of wuhan . >>> thanks for joining us. we are following developments in ukraine this hour as fears mount over a possible russian invasion. the u.s. state department says it will be reducing staff levels at the embassy in kyiv starting with nonessential staff and family members out of an abundance of caution. ukraine says russia has now deployed more than 127,000 troops in the region. amid the heightens restrictions, antony blinken is set to meet with eu foreign ministers virtually today and brief him on his meetings with russia's foreign minister. ahead of that, u.s.'s top diplomat issued this warning. >> if a single additional russian force goes into ukraine in an aggressive way, as i said, that would trigger a swift, aer is vee and a united response from us and from europe. and, again, the

>> right now, the country reels from this covid surge from omicron. president biden is celebrating a positive step in our economic recovery as a country. >> 3.9 unemployment is close to full employment. 12 million open jobs. >> not all good news for the white house. the pending decision from the supreme court that could be a blow. >>> they shot and killed ahmaud arbery, a black man out running in georgia. they learn how long they will spend in prison. >>> hoping to ski her way to beijing. the san francisco woman going for gold. >>> good friday. the news at 5:30 starts right