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he works at the school of public health at the university of hong kong he junk been out from reading. professor cowling is china's 0 corporate strategy working i think it has been working in the last year. you can see they've had very few outbreaks across the country. the outbreaks they do have tended to be just in one city at a time. and so the disruption has been minimized. but i think the quality is going to be a big challenge in 2022, given the more transmissible omicron very. and my next question is how sustainable is the 0 go over strategy? well i think if we look at the past 12 months with outbreaks, generally being in one or 2 cities at a time, i think what we're going to see in the coming year is more widespread outbreaks that take longer to control, but still only affect any one time a minority of the population in china. so in that sense, i think they can still sustain it, but it may be not as good as it was in 22. when he won that may be more disruption than they would like. but then how long can the china afford these disruptions? because the strategy to control these out

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he works at the school of public health at the university of hong kong. he drank the now from reading. professor, calling is china 0 corporate strategy working i think it has been working in the last year. you can see they've had very few outbreaks across the country. the outbreaks they do have tended to be just in one city at a time. and so the disruption has been minimized. but i think the quality is going to pose a big challenge in 2022, given the more transmissible omicron very. and my next question is how sustainable is the 0 go of a strategy? i think if we look at the past 12 months with outbreaks, generally being in one or 2 cities at a time, i think what we're going to see in the coming year is more widespread outbreaks that take longer to control, but still only affect any one time and minority of the population in china. so in that sense, i think they can still sustain it, but they may be not as good as it was in 20 to 21. that may be more disruption than they would like. but then how long can the china afford these disruptions? because the stra

at the university of hong kong. he drank, been out from reading, professor, calling is china 0 corporate strategy working i think it has been working in the last year. you can see they've had very few outbreaks across the country. the outbreaks they do have tended to be just in one city at a time. and so the disruption has been minimized. but i think the quality is going to pose a bigger challenge in 2022, given the more transmissible omicron very. and my next question is how sustainable is the 0 good strategy? well i think if we look at the past 12 months with outbreaks, generally being in one or 2 cities at a time, i think what we're going to see in the coming year is more widespread outbreaks that take longer to control but still only affect any one time a minority of the population in china. so in that sense, i think they can still sustain it, but this may be not as good as it was in 20 to 21. that may be more disruption than they would like. but then how long can the china afford these disruptions? because the

health at the university of hong kong. he drank the now from reading professor, calling is china 0 corporate strategy working i think it has been working in the last year. you can see they've had very few outbreaks across the country. the outbreaks they do have tended to be just in one city at a time. and so the disruption has been minimized. but i think the quality is going to pose a big challenge in 2022, given the more transmissible omicron very. and my next question is how sustainable is the 0 good strategy? i think if we look at the past 12 months with outbreaks, generally being in one or 2 cities at a time, i think what we're going to see in the coming year is more widespread outbreaks that take longer to control, but still only affect any one time and minority of the population in china. so in that sense, i think they can still sustain it, but there may be not as good as it was in 20 to 21 that may be more disruption than they would like. but then how long can the china afford these disruption? because the strategy

for the past 24 years, it stood on the grounds of the university of hong kong. last month, though, the university's management decided to remove it, citing legal advice and risk assessment. the disappearance of the statue came as no surprise to hong congress, but it had been seen as very symbolic, a marker of just how dramatically the space for expression has not old in hong kong . thank you. me. in may of last year, russian authorities embarked on a campaign that threatened to snuff out critical news coverage in the country completely. dozens of journalists and media outlets were classified as foreign agents or worse, undesirable. these are labels that are reminiscent of the country soviet past and practically speaking, they can have a ruinous effect on reporting, making it dangerous for journalists to worked in russia as well as deterring both their sources and their advertisers. some news outlets have been forced to cease their operations completely fronting this effort to criminalize critical news outlets is a handful of so called patriotic activists working

for the past 24 years, it stood on the grounds of the university of hong kong. last month, the university's management decided to remove it, citing legal advice and risk assessment. the disappearance of the statue came as no surprise to hong congress, but it had been seen as very symbolic, a marker of just how dramatically the space for expression has not owed in hong kong. thank you. mean? in may of last year, russian authorities embarked on a campaign that threatened to snuff out critical news coverage in the country completely. dozens of journalists and media outlets were classified as foreign agents or worse, undesirable. these are labels that are reminiscent of the country soviet past and practically speaking, they can have a ruinous effect on reporting, making it dangerous for journalists to worked in russia as well as deterring both their sources and their advertisers. some news outlets have been forced to cease their operations completely fronting this effort to criminalize critical news outlets is a handful of so called patriotic activists working for k

for the past 24 years, it stood on the grounds of the university of hong kong. last month, though, the university's management decided to remove it, citing legal advice and risk assessments. the disappearance of the statue came as no surprise to hong congress, but it had been seen as very symbolic, a marker of just how dramatically the space for expression has not old in hong kong . thank you. me. in may of last year, russian authorities embarked on a campaign that threatened to snuff out critical news coverage in the country completely. dozens of journalists and media outlets were classified as foreign agents or worse, undesirable. these are labels that are reminiscent of the country soviet past and practically speaking, they can have a ruinous effect on reporting, making it dangerous for journalists to worked in russia as well as deterring both their sources and their advertisers. some news outlets have been forced to cease their operations completely fronting this effort to criminalize critical news outlets is a handful of so called patriotic activists workin

for the past 24 years, it stood on the grounds of the university of hong kong. last month, though, the university's management decided to remove it, citing legal advice and risk assessments. the disappearance of the statue came as no surprise to hong congress, but it had been seen as very symbolic, a marker of just how dramatically the space for expression has not old in hong kong . thank you. mean, in may of last year, russian authorities embarked on a campaign that threatened to snuff out critical news coverage in the country completely. dozens of journalist and media outlets were classified as foreign agents or worse, undesirable. these are labels that are reminiscent of the country soviet past and practically speaking, they can have a ruinous effect on reporting, making it dangerous for journalists to worked in russia as well as deterring both their sources and their advertisement. some news outlets have been forced to cease their operations completely fronting this effort to criminalize critical news outlets is a handful of so called patriotic activists wor

for the past 24 years, it stood on the grounds of the university of hong kong. last month, though, the university's management decided to remove it, citing legal advice and risk assessment. the disappearance of the statute came as no surprise to hong congress, but it had been seen as very symbolic, a marker of just how dramatically the space for expression has not old in hong kong . thank you. me. in may of last year, russian authorities embarked on a campaign that threatened to snuff out critical news coverage in the country completely. dozens of journalist and media outlets were classified as foreign agents or worse, undesirable. these are labels that are reminiscent of the country soviet past and practically speaking, they can have a ruinous effect on reporting, making it dangerous for journalists to worked in russia as well as deterring both their sources and their advertisers. some news outlets have been forced to cease their operations completely fronting this effort to criminalize critical news outlets is a handful of so called patriotic activists working

for the past 24 years, it stood on the grounds of the university of hong kong. last month, the university's management decided to remove it, citing legal advice and risk assessments. the disappearance of the statue came as no surprise to hong congress, but it had been seen as very symbolic, a marker of just how dramatically the space for expression has not owed in hong kong. thank you. mean? in may of last year, russian authorities embarked on a campaign that threatened to snuff out critical news coverage in the country completely. dozens of journalists and media outlets were classified as foreign agents or worse, undesirable. these are labels that are reminiscent of the country soviet past and practically speaking, they can have a ruinous effect on reporting, making it dangerous for journalists to worked in russia as well as deterring both their sources and their advertisers. some news outlets have been forced to cease their operations completely fronting this effort to criminalize critical news outlets is a handful of so called patriotic activists. working for

priscilla leung, a legco member, also professor at city university of hong kong school of law, well—respected scholar, has said that the enhanced electoral system will result in a higher quality government. but that's beautiful. we could quote all day long. this is exactly — isn't this exactly... ? we could quote all day long. isn't this exactly what an intelligent debate is like? but the problem that i'm pointing out to you in hong kong is that the people with the views i'm expressing end up injail. they are in jail because they broke the law. and to be completely honest, as a hong kong person, well, not only have i lived in hong kong, i've lived in america before for college, i've been educated in hong kong as well. i see no difference in the level of freedom and personal liberty that i'm enjoying. first of all, i never intend to break any law, so i'm not worried about breaking any law, national security law and any other laws. if you are a law—abiding citizen, if you are doing business, if you're doing, you know, if you're doing your work, people have freedom to do all sorts of things

dr nicholas thomas is an associate professor at the city university of hong kong. he specialises in chinese foreign policy and health security in asia. it's wonderful to have you on the programme, doctor thomas. just to start by acting you —— asking you how effective these vaccines are against omicron? chinese vaccines, like all others, seem to be struggling against omicron. they're definitely providing a degree of protective support for people's immune systems, but when it comes to omicron, we now studies from one of our sister universities that it really doesn't provoke the sort of immune response we need to protect people against omicron effectively. protect people against omicron effectivel . , protect people against omicron effectively-— effectively. yes, doctor thomas. _ effectively. yes, doctor thomas, when - effectively. yes, doctor thomas, when you - effectively. yes, doctorj thomas, when you look effectively. yes, doctor i thomas, when you look at effectively. yes, doctor - thomas, when you look at the current concerns around omicron, how quickly it

like university of hong kong student steph. >> what i would call the worst day was that complete lack of hope. >> reporter: lack of hope about the future. in a city rocked by upheaval in the past few years. from the protests to the pandemic. and china's ongoing crackdown on hong kong's freedoms. >> it's almost been a perfect storm of social change, political change and now a pandemic. and the hong kong system is struggling to cope with the epidemic of mental health. >> reporter: hong kong's public health system, overwhelmed. patients with nonurgent cases are waiting from nine months to almost two years to see a psychiatrist. the average visit, just six to eight minutes. dr. lucy lord is an obstetrician who suffered debilitating post natural depression. >> everybody has mental health, just like we all have physical health. >> reporter: she's the founder of mindhk, a foundation focused on fighting mental health stigma. only a quarter of those suffering seek professional help. one in seven face a common mental disorder in hong kong. it's even worse for high school students. more than hal

chair of epidemiology at the university of hong kong, but he joins us now from england. good to see you, professor. i want to ask you first about a big story here in right now where you have a number of top government officials who are issuing public apologies. this after they attended a big birthday party in a spanish tapas restaurant monday days after the health secretary here told the public to avoid large crowds because the city was on the verge of a fifth wave of covid infections. now you have all these lawmakers and top government officials going into mandatory government quarantine, and at least one local transmission case from that party, possibly a second, we're getting mixed reports about a false positive there. the question being, is it possible now that we have a scenario where government officials, two years into the pandemic, may be a vector of transmission and spreading the virus in the city? >> well, certainly we see that covid doesn't spare anybody. that around the world a lot of public officials have had covid in the past two years and maybe in hong kon

peter chin hong at the university of california, san francisco. speaking with us earlier, kenneth starr know that joke of it has confirmed that he will defend his australian open title in melbourne this month after being granted a medical exemption. reaction to that exemption has been swift. australia's prime minister says the joke of which must proved it is valid or he'll be on the next plane home. world number one has continually refused to reveal his vaccination status against the corona virus. and the victoria state government has mandated that all players be fully vaccinated unless there is a genuine reason for an exemption tournament. officials say that the joke of ich exemption was granted after a quote, rigorous review process and our layer. we spoke with tennis commentators, steve pierce and melbourne, and asked him how the announcement has gone down with australians. the lead balloon would be one. this brings to mind and then many, many, many other phrases which are not repeatable on television. so it's, it's, it's been received across t

he is peter 10 hong at the university of california, san francisco. peter, it's get senior. we appreciate your time tonight. thank you. thanks so much, brent. also to come all the day, the pandemic politics, lockdown parties, and the very end that experts say most europeans are going to get more than 50 percent of the population in region. be infected with a microphone in the next 6 to 8 weeks. ah, i don't want to pass this problem on to the next present, whoever it is. and if, as a nation, we don't deal with this now when we deal with are we going to let this linger on for another 15 years? another 20 years? another 30 years. hey, miss last words that was former president brock obama speaking back in 2016 in his final year in office. about the need to close the guantanamo bay detention camp. it was a key pledge of the obama presidency and some would say it was one of its greatest failures. it's now the year 2022 and want on ago is a problem that was passed on to the next you as president, and then to the one after that. it's now been 20 years since the 1st detainees arrived

he is peter 10 hong at the university of california, san francisco. peter, it's good seeing you. we appreciate your time tonight. thank you. thanks so much for also to come on the day the pandemic politics, lockdown parties, and the very end that experts say most europeans are going to get more than 50 percent of the population in region be infected with a micron in the next 6 to 8 weeks. ah, i don't want to pass this problem on to the next present, whoever it is. and if, as a nation, we don't deal with this now, when will we deal with it? are we going to let us linger on for another 15 years another 20 years? another 30 years. hey, miss last words that was former president brock obama speaking back in 2016 in his final year in office. about the need to close the guantanamo bay detention camp. it was a key pledge of the obama presidency and some would say it was one of its greatest failures. it's now the year 2022 and want on ago is a problem that was passed on to the next you as president, and then to the one after that. it's now been 20 years since the 1st detainees arrived in

vaccines are universally available in hong kong. quite a lot of people have had the chinese vaccine, which is not as effective against omicron as the mrna vaccines. we are seeing a lot of vaccine hesitancy in hong kong, particularly among the elderly. only 20% of 80-plus-year-old hong kong people have been vaccinated. some of that is due to misinformation, disinformation, stories going around that a lot of people are dying after getting the vaccine, it also lack of trust in government and government experts, including health care experts, and that dates back to the 2019 pro-democracy demonstrations and movement that is getting crushed the government. -- crushed by the government. alix: having 13 million people shut down and shutting down gyms and bars, what is going to be the political, fiscal impulse to that? night there will have to be some kind of backstop. andrew: i don't know that there is a backstop. they have taken the view that there -- they are going to stick with a zero-covid policy and they will stick through that with th

peter chin. hong is an infectious disease specialist at the university of california in san francisco. at the number sounds massive, 1000000 new infections in a single day, but will only con, reportedly less dangerous than previous various. how worried are you really? well get hard. we're still very worried because we haven't even hit our search yet . remember we had 3 holidays thanksgiving christmas and new year's. we're still waiting for the repercussions from new years. so, you know, a smaller proportion folks do get hosp lies. a small proportion, a large number is still streaming many hospital systems. but if you asked me, my biggest worry, it's about a workforce. you know, we pod sick health care worker is sick restaurant workers, sick teachers. i, it's really disrupting all of our ways of life and that's leading to burn out. 40 percent of nurses and 20 percent of physicians in say that they intend to quit within a year. so that's to tell you the scope of what we're talking about. so, joe biden just said that it would, it needs to get vaccinated. what else can a needs to be done?

peter chin. hong is an infectious disease specialist at the university of california in san francisco. the number sounds massive. $1000000.00 new infections in a single day, but with only con, reportedly less dangerous than previous variants. how worried are you really? well get hard. we're still very worried because we haven't even hit our search yet . remember, we had 3 holidays thanksgiving christmas and new year's. we're still waiting for the repercussions from new years. so even though a small proportion folks do get hosp lies, a small proportion, a large number is still streaming many hospital systems. but if you ask me, my biggest worry, it's about a workforce. you know, we've had sick health care workers, sick restaurant workers, sick teachers, i, it's really disrupting all of our ways of life. and that's leading to burn out 40 percent of nurses and 20 percent of physicians in say that they intend to quit within a year. so that's to tell you the scope of what we're talking about. so joe biden just said that it would, it needs to get vaccinated. what else can a needs to be done

dr. hannah jose are from the university of cape town. thank you. what are some or developments in the pandemic or hong kong has imposed a 2 week a band on flights from 8 countries, including australia, india, britain, and the united states. polish president andre duda has tested positive for covert a poland has one of europe's lowest vaccination rates, and one of its highest death rates with few restrictions on socializing or a vaccine requirements. and friends, president emmanuel macro says he wants to make life or in vaccinated people so complicated that they just have to get jabbed, used a vulgar expression for getting on people's nerves. australia's prime minister says the tammy star novak jockey, which must prove that he sat at, but he has a medical exemption to play the australian open or he'll be on the next plane home . well, number one intends to defend his title in melbourne this month and has previously refused to reveal his vaccination status. is world number one and defending the australian open champion. novak joke of ich giving speci

up until may be 10. 12 years ago, there was a distinct sense that some of the schools and the universities in hong kong were quite liberal. it was easy to find some place that was not self branding as liberal, but it was, i tend to fight as being liberal. but if you talk to people who specialize in education in hong kong or who observe how education is carried out in hong kong, they wouldn't necessarily describe the same institutions to day as being especially liberal. oh yes. i agree with that and also it's something that i have been observing and also report to badge among vague universities community that is what it's scary things have been going on, but it is really openly reporter for instance. yes, we have. i mean the, and it was in the hong kong, they always have a very big proportions, all foreign lecturers, every profession and so on, in the past 5 years. if not longer off, many, all these for the professors had wes's the night. it all, all it look necessary visa then you know when they turn sixty's and then when they, according to the rules begin the flyer for the expansion of th

speaking that i'm now joined by doctor pete a chin. hong is an infectious disease specialist at the university of california, san francisco. at the number sounds massive, 1000000 new infections in a single day, but was only con, reportedly less dangerous than previous variance. how worried how you really well get hard? we're still very worried because we hadn't even hit our search yet. remember, we had 3 holidays thanksgiving christmas in years. we're still waiting for the repercussions from new years. so even though a small proportion folks do get hostile wise, a small proportion a large number is still streaming many hospital systems. but if you ask me, my biggest worry, it's about the workforce. you know, we've had sick health care workers, sick restaurant workers, sick teachers. i, it's really disrupting all the ways of life, and that's leading to burnout 40 percent of nurses and 20 percent of physicians in say that they intend to quit within a year. so that's to tell you the scope of what we're talking about. so joe biden just said that it would, it needs to get vaccinated. what else can

he is a medical educator at the university of california, san francisco. he focuses on donor derived infections in transplant recipients. starters good to have you on the program. me just ask you transplanting animal organs into humans has mostly failed so far. what about what we're seeing here with this pig hart? how do you rate this attempt? well this is very different. brent in the previous attempts you essentially transplanting the organ from the animal wholesale into the person like a baboon. hard in the past, in a kid in california, in an eighty's for example. but with new technology, you can edit genes, you can put new genes and, and these genes are made to stop the heart from growing to stop the body from rejecting the heart as foreign and gene stevens suppress a particular kind or t cod genes that might be says make the person wants susceptible to animal infection. so these all advances that we could have only dreamed of decades ago in this was try. yeah, i mean, this is amazing. and i have to ask this because, you know, we've lived with a pandemi

peter chin. hong is an infectious disease specialist at the university of california in san francisco. the number sounds massive. $1000000.00 new infections in a single day, but with only con, reportedly less dangerous than previous barriers. how worried are you really? well get hard. we're still very worried because we haven't even hit our search yet . remember, we had 3 holidays thanksgiving christmas and new year's. we're still waiting for the repercussions from new years. so even though a small proportion folks do get hosp lies, a small proportion, a large number is still streaming many hospital systems. but if you asked me, my biggest worry, it's about the workforce. you know, we pod sick health care worker is sick restaurant workers, sick teachers i, it's really disrupting all of our ways of life. and that's leading to burnout. 40 percent of nurses and 20 percent of physicians in say that they intend to quit within a year. so that's to tell you the scope of what we're talking about. so joe biden just said that everybody needs to get vaccinated. what else can or needs to be done?

he is a medical educator at the university of california, san francisco. he focuses on donor derived infections in transplant recipients. starters good to have you on the program. me just ask you transplanting animal organs into humans. has mostly failed so far. what about what we're seeing here with this pig hart? how do you rate this attempt? well this is very different. brent in the previous attempts you essentially transplanting the organ from the animal wholesale into the person like a baboon. hard in the past, in a kid in california, in an eighty's for example. but with new technology, you can edit genes, you can put new genes and, and these genes are made to stop the heart from growing to stop the body from rejecting the heart as foreign and gene stevens suppress a particular kind or take out a genes that might be says, make the person more susceptible to animal infection. so these all advances that we could have only dreamed of decades ago in this was tried. yeah, i mean, this is amazing. and i have to ask this because, you know, we've lived with a

he is a medical educator at the university of california, san francisco. he focuses on donor derived infections in transplant recipients. doctor is good to have you on the program. me just ask you transplanting animal organs into humans. has mostly failed so far. what about what we're seeing here with this pig hart? how do you rate this attempt? well this is very different. brent in the previous attempts you essentially transplanting the organ from the animal wholesale into the person like a baboon. hard in the past, in a kid in california, in an eighty's for example. but with new technology, you can edit genes, you can put new genes and, and these genes are made to stop the heart from growing up to stop the body from rejecting the heart as foreign and gene stevens suppress a particular kind or take out a genes that might be says, make the person more susceptible to animal infection. so these all advances that we could have only dreamed of decades ago. and this was tried. yeah, i mean, this is amazing. and i have to ask this because, you know, we've lived

and also by professor sian griffiths, emeritus professor at the chinese university of hong kong. good morning to you both. ijust wonder if we can establish where you both feel in terms of the timing of this announcement, it coming now and whether you think it is right to welcome at the moment two things are true. , , ., , ., true. the first is that there is no doubt that _ true. the first is that there is no doubt that we _ true. the first is that there is no doubt that we are _ true. the first is that there is no doubt that we are over - true. the first is that there is no doubt that we are over the i true. the first is that there is no doubt that we are over the peak| true. the first is that there is no l doubt that we are over the peak in terms _ doubt that we are over the peak in terms of— doubt that we are over the peak in terms of omicron infections. not so much _ terms of omicron infections. not so much hospitalisations and deaths, because _ much hospitalisations and deaths, because they lag behind, but that is .ood because they lag behind, but that is good news — beca

doctor peter chen hong is a professor of infectious disease for the university of california, san francisco, he says part of the reason the cdc made that move too short and quarantine times last week was because after five days the amount of virus patients shed drops significantly. the ctc's original thinking was that if you're wearing a mask you're out and about that risk for the vast majority of people will be zero and for a small number of people. it will be a little virus, but it will be trapped by the mosque, the city of san francisco shifted its guidelines following the federal government also shortening the recommended isolation time after a positive test as well. dr chen hong says the cdc is walking at proverbial tightrope, trying to prevent the spread of the contagious omicron variant at the same time, allowing the country to get back to some semblance of normalcy. it's not just the economy, it's education. it's healthcare because we're all getting sick right now, and the more people who can cut that time down safely. it's better for all of us and all spheres of our life. dr fauci

doctor peter chen hong is a professor of infectious disease for the university of california, san francisco, he says part of the reason the cdc's made that move too short and quarantine times last week was because after five days the amount of virus patients shed drops significantly. the cdcs original thinking was that if you're wearing a mask you're out and about that risk for the vast majority of people will be zero and for small number of people. it will be a little virus, but it will be trapped by the mosque, the city of san francisco shifted its guidelines following the federal government also shortening the recommended isolation time after a positive test as well. dr chen hong says the cdc is walking at proverbial tightrope, trying to prevent the spread of the contagious omicron variant at the same time, allowing the country to get back to some semblance of normalcy. it's not just the economy, it's education. it's healthcare because we're all getting sick right now, and the more people who can cut that time down. safely it's better for all of us in all spheres of our life. dr fauci in

doctor peter chen hong is a professor of infectious disease for the university of california, san francisco, he says part of the reason the cdc's made that move to shorten quarantine times last week was because after five days the amount of virus patients shed drops significantly. the ctc's original thinking was that if you're wearing a mask you're out and about at risk for the vast majority of people will be zero and for a small number of people. it will be a little virus, but it will be trapped by the mosque, the city of san francisco shifted its guidelines following the federal government also shortening the recommended isolation time after a positive test as well. dr chen hong says the cdc is walking at proverbial tightrope, trying to prevent the spread of the contagious omicron variant at the same time, allowing the country to get back to some semblance of normalcy. it's not just the economy, it's education. it's healthcare because we're all getting sick right now, and the more people who can cut that time down safely. it's better for all of us and all spheres of our life. dr fauci ind

doctor peter chen hong is a professor of infectious disease for the university of california, san francisco, he says part of the reason the cdc's made that move too short and quarantine times last week was because after five days the amount of virus patients shed drops significantly. the cdcs original thinking was that if you're wearing a mask you're out and about at risk for the vast majority of people will be zero and for a small number of people . it will be a little virus, but it will be trapped by the mosque, the city of san francisco shifted its guidelines following the federal government also shortening the recommended isolation time after a positive test as well. dr chen hong says the cdc is walking at proverbial tightrope trying to prevent the spread of the contagious omicron variant at the same time, allowing the country to get back to some semblance of normalcy. it's not just the economy, it's education. it's healthcare because we're all getting sick right now, and the more people who can cut that time down safely. it's better for all of us and all spheres of our life. dr fauci i

that makes leaving hong kong quite difficult. but we still have an influx of a population. universities reopening, so there are international students coming in. so it will balance out. overall, because of the low interest rate condition and holding power is not quite strong, we believe the residential market will still go up 2% or 3%, that is our forecast. haslinda: but regulations are changing. that might impact interest and sentiment in the market. >> that's right. but whether the government will increase interest rates -- but will the government increase interest rates all of a sudden? no, we believe if it goes up, it will be slow. the impact will be quite marginal. for us, the interest rate here -- if you borrow by mortgage, it is less than 12%. way easy to cover by rental income. i think that still supports the residential market quite well. haslinda: i've been wondering, we've had the property clampdown by china, a credit issue with the likes of evergrande, how might this play out? i'm wondering how it will play out in terms of residential and commercial properties.

>> i think many people think it's universally mild. but being in the hospital this week, i can tell you there are still a lot of patients even with omicron, having very severe disease, having abnormalities on their chest imaging. we have to give them a lot of medicines, and we have over 100 patients in the ucsf system. it's definitely not a walk in the park right now. and, you know, it's mild for many people but not mild for everyone. >> we are seeing cases and positivity rates dip statewide. and san francisco health leaders say they believe the city hit its peak a few weeks ago. do you think we're on the other side of the surge at this point? >> yes, i definitely think we're on the other side, in terms of cases, but we're not really down to a strong level yet. just like we're on the everest of omicron and coming down everest and hoping to reach the warming hut. we're almost there, we're coming down very quickly, but we haven't reached it exactly yet. >> and like you said, there are still a lot of hospitalizations right now. what about

and of course he doesn't have an answer. but he said he hopes that one day this will become less of our universe and just part of our world. more of just something like a flu season. we get our vaccines and we're done. it's not it doesn't take over the way. we live our lives by any means. so that is the good news is there's some optimism that we're hearing from local health officials, especially as we decline from this surge. daria. >> i meaning you'll be back. so we'll be back said. all right. thank you from home. >> yeah, maybe a song. thanks, sarah. >> in the meantime, we're going home to home to get these stories. and now let's go to camila. bernal is home talking about san mateo county and how long these covid tests are taking for the results to come back. camila. good morning. >> good morning, a little bit of a delay in san mateo county for people who work at doing those covid testing. they're trying to get the results back. normally if you take a pcr test would take about 3 days to get your results. but a lot of peopl

he's a visiting fellow at the school of social and behavioral science at rasmus university shows me now via skype from rotted. i'm good. have you with us live on the show. so a record drop in the birthright despite the change really in government policy, to have more than one children or child. i mean, what factors are determined couples from having a larger family? well, yeah. so that's the thing is not only from the planning policy, of course, it is, as the report suggested, very high living costs, very high direct costs associated with having a child. but also, i think, just as important. and since i knew many parts, well, the very high what oppertunity cost specifically to women's careers in that is very gender on equal world where the primary responsibility, childcare, and of course carrying for the parents rest on the shoulders as women. so the cost to women to read is very high plus also the kind of the challenges is getting started in life. the cost of living in the cost of housing, the chances of getting the decent job. then when you add cov it in the panoramic and all of the e

student in hong kong's university sociology department where he studies chinese labor relations and the chinese labor movement. and is reported that fong while conducting field work on these thesis about labor empowerment in china on the mainland last august was taken into custody by the chinese authorities under the phrase residential surveil langs at a -- surveillance at a designated location. what is residential surveillance at a designated location? is a coerce measure that allows authorities to hold individuals for up to six month, with no ak -- months with no access lawyers, no okay says to family at all. apparently his research as well as frequent social media posts about workers rights, sexual harassment, and itself displacement of migrant workers put him on beijing's radar. according to one article this young man roamed the factory towns of southern china immersing themselves in workers' lives and supporting them while they tried to strike or seek compensation for work injuries. even the fact that he is a loyal member of the communist party who did not , it did not save him fro