it is really not wanting to contract omicron. that is really what people are focused on is keeping distance to not get it. it is highly infectious and challenging, people are getting it. the good news is that people for the most part are not ending up in the hospitalizations and dying in numbers we experienced this last year before we had access to the vaccine. i am hopeful and optimistic for the future and sadly so many small businesses and restaurants and families and people not able to get together is very, very challenging. my hope is as we begin to reopen and see numbers decline we are careful and go out and support our restaurants. we order pick up from the restaurants and support our small businesses. it is going to take all of us to get through this. part of that is san franciscans doing more to support our businesses. my drycleaner i have been going to the same drycleaner since i had a drycleaner. i am not getting as many clothes cleaned as before. talking to find out how can i as long time customer be supportive? donati

it could be the same, it could _ omicron. it could be the same, it could he — omicron.ould be less, so as it _ could be more, it could be less, so as it evolves, — could be more, it could be less, so as it evolves, what is trying to do is transmit— as it evolves, what is trying to do is transmit more readily, to grow, so that— is transmit more readily, to grow, so that could be because it has intrinsic— so that could be because it has intrinsic transmissibility advantage, or it escapes immunity, and the _ advantage, or it escapes immunity, and the change in severity is a random — and the change in severity is a random by—product, so we expect there _ random by—product, so we expect there to _ random by—product, so we expect there to he — random by—product, so we expect there to be further variants, and they— there to be further variants, and they could — there to be further variants, and they could be more severe. as chris has said. _ they could be more severe. as chris has said. if— they could be more severe. as chris has said, if you look at omicron, actuatty, — has s

it's a big change that's happened, which is we experienced the omicron surge.nd with many children in particular, as well as adults, being infected and ending up in the hospital during the omicron surge, it turns out that has actually facilitated the collection of important clinical data, additional clinical data that we did not have in december. whether that changes the risk-benefit profile is what the fda will be assessing. but there has been developments since december on the data front. mr. zients: next question, please. moderator: let's go to jacqueline howard at cnn. reporter: thank you for taking my question. i understand that earlier this week, governors who met with the president expressed that they were seeking more clear guidelines from the white house on what the transition out of the pandemic and into a greater state of normality might look like. obviously, i know we're not quite there yet. but my question is, when might we see such guidance? and can you give us any insight into if and how those guidelines will be prepared? what metrics will be con

so it's a little bit better at omicron that that at infecting people. we know that because in certain countries it's taking over for the original omicron and what that might mean is in the bay area, for example, if it takes off here rather than coming down the curve like that. it might be it slows down our from from the search, but it shouldn't fundamentally change our ability to get out of the surge because it's not of the evading the immunity any better than omicron did all right today as you know, san francisco lifted its indoor masked man date for stable cohort. where people are vaccinated so we're talking about gyms offices, you know who's coming in and you know, they're vaccination status. will you unmasking those situations? do you feel comfortable? not quite yet, and i think i it's vaccinated and boosted. so so that to me is key again. i don't consider you to be fully vaccinated. whatever the cdc says i don't consider you'd be fully vaccinated if you haven't gotten three shots. so if the reason i wouldn't could i wouldn't do that yet is the case

omicron infection isn't as good alone as those.ike to see people who have gotten infected during the omicron surge realizing that a simple vaccination afterwards could give them a tremendous amount of reduction, much more than they see right now with just the omicron infection. gina: what is the latest on the next variant? there have been rumors of a variant of the omicron popping up. what is the latest as we progress through the year? dr. pekosz: my colleagues always accuse me of being the barrier of the bad news as we follow the variants. viruses mutate, variants emerge. nothing seems to be mirroring what the first omicron has done. there are variants out there. scientists like my selves -- like myself are looking at this. there is nothing on the rise and that is as concerning as omicron. tom: when you go upstairs and look at viruses, do you do it with adp two days -- do it with a petri dish? dr. pekosz: we have dishes of cells and one we put virus on those cells, usually within 12 to 14 hours virus kills those cells and is we mo

when you're dealing with omicron, it's 81. but more than six months after the second dose, it wanes with omicron to 57%, holding up a bit better with delta. but after the third dose you get protection at 90% with omicron, which is even better than after six months after the second dose. again, another example of the critical importance of boosting. next slide. here's another way of looking at it. when you look at symptomatic disease in hospitalizations, again, when you're dealing with omicron on the far left, the protection against symptomatic disease is quite low at week 25 following two doses. if you look at the boost, it goes up substantially to 40%, but the critical data along the right hand part of the slide, if you look at hospitalizations and look at two doses of the pfizer biontech, either at 10 to 14 weeks, it's still way up there at 75%. next slide. and again, if you look at c.d.c. data which shows a dramatic reduction in the risk of hospitalization and death for people who received a booster dose, we can see that on

omicron variant? we will have to see where it goes from here. there was a hong kong university report that also says that with the current restrictions, the tightest hong kong has ever had, we could see 20,000 new infections a day by march and 1000 deaths by june. the government has to balance civil freedoms versus the reality that the hong kong university and its advisors are saying that this omicron outbreak is spreading. and the hospital system here is, according to officials, overwhelmed. there is no more room in the hospitals and they are urging those fairly healthy or those asymptomatic to stay at home and isolate at home prior to care. shery: stephen engle with the latest on the pandemic in hong kong. let's get to vonnie quinn. vonnie: canada is preparing to open the ambassador bridge after a five-day protest against vaccine mandates shut it down. authorities started removing protesters. bridge traffic has been impacted on both sides. $14 million an hour in traded goods lost. san francisco fed

it is only because we know omicron is less severe that testing for omicron on the colossal scale we haveing as much less important and much less valuable in preventing serious illness. we should be proud the u.k. has established the biggest testing program per person of any large country in the world. this came at fast cost. the test trays of knisley's and budget exceeded the entire budget -- it cost of further 15.7 pounds in this financial year and 2 billion pounds in january alone at the height of the omicron wave. we must now scale this back. from today, we are removing the guidance for staff and students in most education and child care settings to undertake twice-weekly a symptomatically testing. from april 1, where winter is over and the virus will not spread as easily -- anna: boris johnson speaking in the houses of parliament and saying the u.k. -- specifically england will remove covid isolation rules on february 24, that is thursday of this week, they will be ending routine contact tracing in england. covid testing and tracing program came at a vast cost and that scale was much

then its parent variant omicron also known as ba one. i think there's a scientific consensus now that is somewhere between 30 and 50%. >> more transmissible. >> then one doctor swartzberg says there's new studies coming out about the subvariant all the time and one came out wednesday saying you can also be more severe, suggested ba 2 might be able to evade immunity. we have from vaccines or previous infection. >> better than omicron. that same group had some evidence to suggest perhaps it might make them sicker than omicron debts. >> more like delta. he believes local leaders may have removed masking requirements in shared spaces too soon. i would. >> 6 is the prudent thing to do would be to wait until we've not these cases way down. wade, you below where we started with with doctor swartzberg did tell me this is all preliminary information. >> and to expect to learn more about too in the coming weeks. amanda hari kron. 4 news. >> and delays are being reported now in one of the vaccines aimed protecting children from covid-19. that delay

. >> doctors keeping a close eye on a transmissible version of the omicron very. how concerned should we be? >> everything from school buses to ankle monitors experience technical problems. the service shutdown that will also impact muni. good evening. i am elizabeth cook. but 11:00 and streaming on cbs news bay area giving you a live look outside. we expect wild weather around the bay area and were getting ready for the first a glimpse of rain in quite some time. >> here is a look at the showers and sang carlos. nothing too heavy but we will take anything we can get. paul heggen is tracking the conditions for us.>>> very light rainfall amounts but that is the good side of the system. the not so good side is why we have a first alert weather day. you don't want to be caught out in the open when either of those threats is going to be out there. it will be from late morning to the afternoon hours tuesday. heavy rain will not be a major concern. some local heavy downpours will be brief. once the rain winds down then the greatest threat that we will faced that we will

record set a year ago, as you can see on this omicron spike chart.( laughter ) that's also my e.k.g. after someone showed me that chart. that might be just the tip of the iceberg as dr. scott gottlieb explained yesterday on "the nation-face." >> we're probably only diagnosing somewhere between one in five and one in ten in actual infections and there is a lot of people walking around with mild illness or asymptomatic infection who don't know and who are spreading it. >> stephen: way to keep things optimistic, doc. he also does motivational posters: hang in there because things are actually ten times worse than you think. ( laughter ) some people don't want to know how many cases of omicron are out there. take florida governor and man realizing that the gas station sushi was a bad idea, ron desantis. desantis continues to oppose widespread testing as he explained on friday. >> think about it. before covid, did anyone go out and seek testing to determine if they were sick? it's usually you feel like you're sick and then you get tested to determine what

while the omicron variant remains dominant in france, the risk for developing lung covid remains. 100 million people are estimated to suffer from long covid symptoms. current fatigue and breathlessness. to talk more, we can bring in the head of department at a university in south africa. two years into this pandemic, but do we know? reporter: across the globe, patients that have recovered experience a range of symptoms that are persistent. anchor: have we seen the number of patients go down? >> unfortunately not. the rate is increasing all the time, and we cannot say vaccination has caused long covid to subside. the issue is we simply don't know. there is no diagnostic for long covid, and that is a real problem. anchor: if 's difficult to diagnose, how does someone know they have it? >> currently, there is no test you can do. the only way to see whether the patient has long covid is when the patient goes to a doctor, the clinician goes through a process of identifying symptoms that were not present in the individual. that has started during the acute covid phase. but has been persiste

given omicron infection rates are _ that. given omicron infection rates are falling. _ that._ that. given omicron infection rates are falling. is this - that. given omicron infection rates are falling. is this a - rates are falling. is this a wise move?— rates are falling. is this a wise move? , ., wise move? there is more we don't know — wise move? there is more we don't know than _ wise move? there is more we don't know than we _ wise move? there is more we don't know than we do - wise move? there is more we don't know than we do know. | don't know than we do know. i've been talking to colleagues all day, we are not certain we have all the docs connected his. there are some unusual features about this. pfizer say in the press release anticipates will be a three dose vaccine, the two doses three—week apart followed by a pause of eight weeks, then the third dose of. but they only have collected data for immunogenicity the ability to produce an immune response and safety for the first two doses. the idea would be it sounds like the emergency authorisation would be granted, pot

omicron itself already has several subvariants.hat is spreading in hong kong and in denmark is called ba-2, a subvariant of omicron. we really need to watch that because the virus is not done with its evolutionary engagement with the species. it's not done. matt: the mutations are still a concern. doctor, thank you so much for your time. dr. chris beyrer from johns hopkins, bloomberg school of public health which is supported by michael r. bloomberg, founder of bloomberg. more bloomberg coming up. mark: i am mark crumpton with first word news. president biden's top advisors are repackaging his economic message to the american public. this comes at a time when his approval ratings are sinking and the president's legislative agenda stalls in congress. in the has week -- last week mrs on growth in wages, union jobs and domestic manufacturing. he is giving less weight to areas that are sore points with voters, such as inflation and the partisan bickering over covid. former new york governor andrew cuomo isn't ruling out another run for

four to five months against omicron. at four to five months, even though it has come down over a. of time, you can see it go from 91 to 88 to 78, the level of 78 is still a good protective area. i will show you what that means looking forward. i want to mention on the next slide, the safety of this. we often get asked that. if you look at the cdc from february 11 and look at their monitoring systems, it is very clear that for people 18 years and older, we see the same vaccine brand for all vaccinations, they experience fewer adverse reactions following the booster dose then they did -- in fact reports show that most adverse effects are not considered serious. they found that medical care was rarely received after a booster dose. let us go to the last summary slide. next slide. the dynamics of covid-19 operate and continue to point in a sharp downward direction. vaccination a boosting will be critical in maintaining that downward trajectory, particularly when you're talking about the red curve of severe disease leading to

cdc director walensky says the omicron wave continues to receive. also at the briefing was johns hopkins health security director, doctor tom inglesby, who talked about efforts to increase testing capacity. this is happening our. >> good morning. i would like to start by walking you through the data. the current seven-day daily average of cases is about 107,000 per day, a decrease of 43%. the seven-day average of admissions is 9500 per day, a decrease of 28%. the seven-day average of deaths are 2200 per day, a decrease of 9% over the previous week. omicron cases are declining and we are cautiously optimistic about the trajectory we are on. things are moving in the right direction. we want to remain vigilant to do all we can so that this continues. as we see the wave continue to wane, we know that you have many questions regarding what prevention strategies are necessary for this moment, especially as people are so eager to remove them. as cdc, we provide public health guidance to help communities make decisions based on risk at the local level, comm

the omicron wave is still high. and if you look— omicron wave is still high.n wave is still high. and if you look at the uk, we are still in places— you look at the uk, we are still in places between one in 20 and one in 25 people _ places between one in 20 and one in 25 people have got omicron if they were tested according to ns data, which _ were tested according to ns data, which is _ were tested according to ns data, which is slightly backward looking. the rates are coming down but this this is_ the rates are coming down but this this is still— the rates are coming down but this this is still a — the rates are coming down but this this is still a very common infection _ this is still a very common infection. it is important to view the next — infection. it is important to view the next period when we will still have _ the next period when we will still have testing all the way up to april and in _ have testing all the way up to april and in which changes are happening in fact— and in which changes are happening in fact in_ and in which changes are happenin

it had the highest rates of omicron. d.c. had amassed mandate, and the highest rates of omicron. even within our own state there is a mask mandates, have seen just as high or higher rates of omicron. it is very important that we focus on omicron. that does not mean that masks do not work. although cnn and other left-leaning publications that say cloth masks do not work. i was pushing n95 masks as a way of people to keep themselves safe. there are so many tools to keep ourselves safe and give people those choices and make those determinations. it is completely irrational for me to point out that utah did make it to the top five, after some head drop down and others had surged ahead. it is always amazing to me that no one ever points out that utah has been at the bottom five for hospitalization rates for omicron and that that continues. we have to be smarter about the way we are doing this, the public is going to lose trust in us if we do not follow the signs as the science changes and as a variant changes. if anyone out there can show me good data, in fact all the data -- evidence

de schalke delta. >> dado que Ómicron para muchas personas causa solo una enfermedad leve.e detectar. >> sabemos que es mÁs contagiosa, sabemos que se estÁ esparciendo mucho mÁs rÁpido en otros lados del mundo. a comparaciÓn de otras cosas, hay que esperar un poco mÁs para saber si las vacunas actuales siguen cubriendo como queremos. romy: a pesar de que las infecciones por Ómicron estÁn disminuyendo en estados unidos, el cdc predice que para finales de febrero habrÁ 75,000 muertes adicionales por covid—19. mÉdicos estÁn optimistas que con los recursos disponibles, la pandemia se podrÁ controlar. >> al vacunas y tecnologÍa para mejorar las vacunas. tenemos medicamentos que estÁn salvando vidas. estÁn previniendo en caso de que las vacunas no funcionen totalmente, asÍ pueden recuperar vidas. patricia: mÉxico va a facilitar la emisiÓn de credenciales de elector a sus compatriotas radicados en estados unidos, para que puedan votar en las elecciones de su paÍs. esta vez no va a exigir que pidan cita en los consulados mexicanos para tramitar este documento. se espera que al elim

maria cid medina is in san carlos where some infected with omicron were caught off guard. >> reporter: when some told us the omicron was less severe many brushed it off as common cold or flu but now some who have been infected say this is an illness they have never experienced before. >> taking a shower was exhausting. >> i started coughing, spasming. >> reporter: they caught covid last month. the effects weeks later remain. >> i ended up telling my wife we are going to have to go to the e.r. >> reporter: a week after testing positive, isaac who has adult asthma began having a hard time breathing and turned to his inhaler. >> that was not working. i kept using it and using it. >> reporter: an e.r. doctor told him he had inflammation in his lungs from asthma and coughing. they were both vaccinated and say lingering symptoms caught them off guard. in the first days of being sick, the symptoms were mild. >> it started with a headache. >> in the beginning for me, very easy flu-like symptoms. >> your experience may be milder because you are vaccinated. >> reporter: a stanford epidemiologis

generally, omicron is milder. the previous _ view on that? generally, omicron is milder.n that? generally, omicron is milder. the previous variants, both| milder. the previous variants, both intrinsically milder but also we are seeing less infection, less severe disease, because of immunity from vaccines and prior infections, as well, provide good protection against the disease. the fly in the ointment, of course, is ba2, this is a variant of omicron and there has been recent data from japan suggesting this is not actually intrinsically less brilliant than some of the ancestral variance of covid. dallas—macro lese reland. we are still looking at that but we should not expect to see substantially more severe disease even with ba two.— substantially more severe disease even with ba two. professor, thank ou. our health correspondent jim reed is with me now. we have heard from buckingham palace of the statement that the queen has tested positive. experiencing mild symptoms but does expect to be continuing light duties at windsor castle this week. that continuing light duties

looking at vaccine effectiveness against hospitalization with omicron. you are looking at the diminution of efficacy or effectiveness after dose two. the time at the bottom is weeks. you are looking at two separate vaccines, the pfizer/biontech and the moderna. with hospitalizations, although it goes down from the initial, very high, 90 plus percent, down to around 80%, nonetheless, still at a high level relatively speaking. next. this is an even larger study, a large cohort study the cdc recently put out in the mswr, their vision network. concentrate on the two does vaccine efficacy at four to five months against omicron, and again, it goes down to 58%. however, at four to five months, even though it has come down, you can see it go from 91 to 88 to 78, nonetheless, the level of 78 is a good protective area. i will show you what that means. i want to mention on the next slide the safety of this, because we often get asked that. if we look at the cdc from february 11 and their monitoring systems, it is clear that people 18 or older who have seen the same

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kpix5 has more on how you might call it the omicron delay. area council for the past 10 months about the return to the office plans. before the omicron variant, many employees figured they would be in their new normal in march or april. now many estimate it is looking like may or june. >> the bay area council says the omicron variant was a set back for many companies. >> we did see about a month or two regression due to omicron. 37% of the workforce was still fully remote and that is about 10% higher than we have seen in both november and december. >> reporter: what the variant did not really change, what many companies think their new normal will look like. >> three day a week normal was, you know, consistent as it has been for 10 months. >> three days a week in person, two days a week remote. >> personally i love it. >> jesse works for a tech company. >> they treat us well. >> reporter: his employer has offices open but no requirement for people to go in at the moment but it could change. >> i typically go in two or three days a week. they

yes, getting omicron is super popular.r it's dating pete davidson. ( laughter and applause ) but-- he's got-- he's got that b.d.e.-- that big delta energy. now, that's what i hear! that's what i hear! it's got to be something! it's got to be something. but, i have to get a neck tattoo. but as appealing as the notion of intentionally making yourself sick may be, cnn has some pretty good reasons to avoid getting the covid, including: you could get long covid, you'll stress the health care system, and don't mess with mother nature, adding, "she's been trying to kill us ever since we crawled out of the ocean onto the land." damn you, mama nature! damn you to hell! ( applause ) you know what? you know what? i was, for years now, i have been against global warming, but now it's just payback time. i'm going back to plastic straws. now, come-- come here, you damn turtle! come here! ( piano riff ) there is no actual turtle here, by the way. now, there is some help on the horizon. the white house just announced that insurers will ha

may be more severe than the original omicron. we spoke to an infectious disease expert about what we know at this point. kron four's amanda hari has the story. >> the infectious disease expert that i spoke to says the ba 2 subvariant of omicron is here in the united states. and he says, although it isn't the dominant variant, it has. the potential is certainly spreading around the world. it's been identified in 74 countries to date. >> it's here. health officials continue to learn more about the omicron subvariant to be a 2. >> also referred to as the stealth variant uc berkeley, infectious disease specialist doctor john swartzberg says it's only about 4% of the case in the u.s. right now. but that number is growing. >> a couple weeks ago, it was less than one percent. so it's increasing. he says in some other countries it's become the dominant strain. >> and that's because experts believe it's more contagious. then its parent variant omicron also known as ba one. i think there's a scientific consensus now that is somewhere betwe

shows the weight of omicron dragging it down.t all bad. there are some encouraging signs. jobs are coming back. the u.s. economy grew from last year at its fastest pace since 1984 and the markets are still flirting with record highs but there is also bad news. the gas prices keep climbing. inflation in 2021 hit its highest level in 39 years. interest rates are going up as are housing prices and both rentals and home buying. bottom line the economy ran into an omicron wall and the question is for how long? cnn's matt egan is here to break it down for us. new jobs numbers out this morning just ahead of the big jobs report on friday. break down the numbers and what more they tell us. >> the jobs market is all about omicron. private employment fell 301,000 in january according to adp. that breaks a streak of 12 monthly gains. the jobs market was humming along and then omicron hit and the jobs market went in reverse. it was across the board, almost every sector lost jobs in january. the biggest were in the covid sensitive leisure and

i believe is omicron based on my symptoms. i did christmas virtually online. go out for new year's. i still got covid-19 for a secondt time. after being fully vaccinated it was very. frustrating. i was sick for a couple weeks actually. a symptomatic long after i tested negative for covid-19. i hate this illness. >> how severe it were your symptoms? >> one of the days i was sick, once again i had a blood oxygen level that drop below 90 it got down to 85 this time. the first time i got six it wass down to 87. question blood oxygen level fluctuate, as minded. for about 36 hours it was really uncomfortable when that was happening. we don't know why i pretty wish we had more information, or science, or studies to understand why certain people react a certain way or have a harder more difficult time with covid-19. it is very frustrating and ripped through my entire family. i read somewhere to that 66% of omicron cases for people that covid-19 previously. and so i just wish we knew more about this illness and how to treat it, treat it better when you have the illness

omicron has had the ability to do that.ctions, breakthrough infections in people boosted, but of course, much less severe and less common. by endemic, what we really mean essentially is that there will be upticks, but the majority of the population will be protected, either by natural immunity, by having recovered from covid, or by vaccination and boosting. you are better off if you have the vaccines. jonathan: we are struggling to identify whether certain policies are backed by science or politics. the recent guidance around mask mandates, the removal of them, adjustment of them, what's been your reaction? >> we are on the right side of the omicron curve coming down. we still have a high number of deaths, hospitalizations. many hospitals are stressed. so, the idea that governors, particularly in the blue states, are lifting these restrictions because they are so unpopular at a time when they are just getting out of this does feel epidemiological not supported by the evidence. i think that's why you heard rochelle walensky

will we see omicron impact in this report? dom chu has the story. >> i guess you could say the expectations for expedia and bengals and rams are relatively hot according to this particular week on a consensus basis, analysts looking for roughly $2.3 billion in revenues. traders and investors looking towards companies like expedia as possibly broader indicators or bellwethers for the overall travel sector. bookings airlines, rental cars expedia, vacation rental side under the vrbo brand and surrounding omicron, expedia seeing benefit from bigger return of demand for travel and leisure people look to get back to normal, scratch itches to travel festering during lockdown the last couple years. very much a story about the future, because many of those positives obviously at this point been reflected in the stock price at current levels at record highs look for any of those outlook-like commentaries especially leisure travel and by the way, kelly, this is often times a more volatile stock around earnings reports. to that end, we lo

we're far from out of this flash flood of omicron.or two, we'll see omicron recede relatively rapidly. it's still possible another variant could emerge, but we're better prepared than we've ever been. and i do think the future will be brighter. able to get back to more activities, more safely. >> you write that while there are many reasons for cautious optimism, there's also wild cards, including the virus' ability to mutate. how do we best account for wild cards while moving forward? >> it is stunning, the degree to which omicron is changing. the virus is changing. if you look at ba.2, it's strikingly different from omicron. it's still adapting to people, and people need to adapt to the virus. that means get vaccinated. there are still 50 million people in the country that haven't had their first dose. get boosted, they're very effective against omicron, then masks when there's a lot of virus around. look at what countries in east asia do, singapore in flu season, if you're feeling sick, if you have a health problem or you're concern

can someone get omicron twice? even if they're vaccinated and boosted. >> yes. we have heard reports already from israel a few people have been reinfected. but my feeling is that the majority of folks wouldn't get reinfected immediately. we know that antibodies which are the first line of defense probably linger at least full strength for about three to six months after either natural infection or the last time you were boosted. regardless, you are going to be protected against serious disease, hospitalization and death. after ward. if you put in bay area terms after the surge we probably have a holiday of about three to six months. and maybe in the fall of the winter people may start getting reinfected. however, if those people are boosted, they're not going to go to the hospital. en if they get natural infection. at least in the first year it's unlikely they'll get to the hospital with serious disease. unless you are immune compromised. >> all right. last question. during this entire pandemic it's been the numbers that tell the story. dictate when we loosen re

in terms of the roblem with omicron. in terms of the problem of — with omicron.f inflation, - with omicron. in terms of the problem of inflation, we - with omicron. in terms of the i problem of inflation, we talked about it in the us and we had our inflation figures in the uk this week, think that is the most prominent issue that will be on the minds of finance ministers today and central bankers in terms of what that might mean in the next weeks and months? it might mean in the next weeks and months?— might mean in the next weeks and months? it certainly should be the most _ and months? it certainly should be the most prominent - and months? it certainly should be the most prominent issue i and months? it certainly should be the most prominent issue in| be the most prominent issue in their minds, right? and, you know, i think the g20 finance ministers as well as central banks need to acknowledge the fact that this is not a transitory pick—up in the cost of living. and their own fiscal policy stances and highly accommodative policy stances are the source of the i

plus the new omicron covid variant is spreading.ow we'll talk to local infectious disease experts about what concerns them about it. and the white house says it is committed to pursuing diplomacy will tell you what's next for the u.s. and russia as tensions and russia as tensions continue to rise over ukraine. and now most admired alum! get up there. this is so embarrassing. there's no way it's me (friends laughing) you know her.... you love her.... ruh roh what are you doing here? it's anna gomez! what? who? our first gigillionaire! with at&t fiber, anna's got the fastest internet with hyper-gig speeds. i didn't know you went to this school we have a lot in common. live like a gigillionaire with at&t fiber, now with speeds up to 5 gigs. limited availability >> from the area's local news station, you're watching the kron. 4 morning news at no. >> good morning. and i'm thinking of what was i can pass on today that i learned over the weekend potential is always bigger than the problem. think about that. you like that, john. it was a l

then its parent variant omicron also known as ba one. i think there's a scientific consensus now that is somewhere between 30 and 50%. >> more transmissible. >> then one doctor swartzberg says there's new studies coming out about the subvariant all the time and one came out wednesday saying you can also be more severe, suggested that. >> ba 2 might be able to evade immunity. we have from vaccines or previous infection better than omicron. that same group had some evidence to suggest perhaps it might make them sicker than omicron debts. >> more like delta. he believes local leaders may have removed masking requirements in shared spaces too soon. i would >> think that the prudent thing to do would be to wait until we've not these cases way down. wade, below where we started with with omicron doctor swartzberg did tell me this is all preliminary information. >> and to expect to learn more about too in the coming weeks. amanda hari kron. 4 news. and the fda is considering a 4th dose of covid vaccine in the fall. they're trying to figure out

came, and now -- when omicron came. it just makes me think that people are knowing what is out there in terms of the virus impacts and wanting to go into the office, but then also policies could also impact people wanting to go into the office. i've heard a lot of people say that they are not -- they have no desire to go back into the office if masks are required, if there are stricter requirements to go back into the office. is there anything in the data that you see that is inhibiting us here in san francisco from encouraging people to come back into the office based on our policies as it relates to covid? >> supervisor, if you ask a question like that, you would need more data points that we have. we would like to see if there are places that don't have strong restrictions, that are somewhere in san francisco or are there places that have no restrictions and are similar to san francisco. i understand the argument, but it is difficult for me to say that if you remove the mask mandate you would then see a spike in san

a little bit more infectious than the original omicron, but not so much that it's a game changer. the biggest reason to be concerned about is it demonstrates when we say omicron is as bad as it can get, well, actually not, because this thing is a little bit more infectious than the original version, but not so much so that it really changes the game. kristen: i was great talking to you. thank you so much. >> my pleasure. kristen: coming up next, we'll talk to a berkeley man who is leading the call for uc to actually build less, which led to a kristen: california high school seniors who applied to uc berkeley are waiting for the supreme court to decide whether it's going to step in in the case of a berkeley neighborhood group versus expansion plans. that intervention, if it comes, could be the difference between thousands of qualified students being accepted or rejected for lack of space. now, as things stand now, a lower court ruling means cal may have to cut its new enrollment by one third. yesterday, we were joined by university spokesperson and senator scott weiner, of berke's

but i think omicron is more than 80% of new infections still.'s go with that although i will say that i have many smart "a" advocates as well. dr. patel: ace, b is not true. a is true and this is optimistic. i don't think we should lose sight of the fact that 90,000 hospitalizations are still a lot. we cannot normalize these numbers. b is false. according to new cdc data, it is 100%. zero cases of delta sequenced in the last few weeks. 96% were among the first generation and 3% worthy "stealth" omicron. c is true. i would point out one thing, washington will lift its outdoor mask mandate. i don't understand why there was an outdoor mask mandate to begin with. kristen: right. daniel our viewer was extra saying i think it is 90 -- 95%. not only did he get the right answer but he was shuffling a little bit. let's talk more about the mask mandate in california. indoors. it is for vaccinated people. gauge for ourselves what to consider when we are deciding whether or not to take off our masks. when might be able to now -- when might we be able to now

omicron has wiped us out at the moment. as stated, we have had more covid positive cases this year than in the last six weeks than in the previous year. that has impacted the pace right now. that has exacerbated the existing hiring and training ability with the 20 to 25% reduction with the delays of service and i am asking what is being done and to protect the health and safety of the work force and the customers. that is what is being done. >> what is being done at the leadership issue in the city to have the support to treat that emergency and the additional three months of delay with the complete unreliability of the system to get people around. is there any convening of leaders and what is the ask of the board of supervisors, the mayor, the ta in how we can atis to minimize? and get more buses rolling and not have in the short term the omicron crisis in the short term, while we have regular convenings with the partners in the mayor's office and the department of public health and sfmta board and labor and leadership hel

then its parent variant omicron also known as ba one.i think there's a scientific consensus now that is somewhere between 30 and 50% more transmissible. then one doctor swartzberg says there's new studies coming out about the subvariant all the time and one came out wednesday saying you can also be more severe, suggested ba 2 might be able to evade immunity. we have from vaccines or previous infection. >> better than omicron. that same group had some evidence to suggest perhaps it might make them sicker than omicron debts. >> more like delta, but he says other data shows that countries with the highest vaccination booster rates. we are seeing the least hospitalizations and deaths because of ba 2. he says the u.s. is lagging behind other countries in percentage of people boosted and that could become a problem. >> that concerns me about the united states because we have awful lot of people here who have gotten 2 jabs but haven't gotten 3rd doctor. swartzberg did tell me this is all preliminary information. >> and to expect to learn more a

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