barbara ferrer, the health director of los angeles, public health director and her argument why this might have to happen. >> if both hospital indicators, the new covid-19 admissions and the proportion of staffed in-patient beds occupied by covid patients surpasses the threshold for high and our case rate is at or above 200 new cases per hundred thousand people, la county will follow the cdc guidance for communities designated at the high community level including universal indoor masking. tammy: universal indoor masking. i understand that at the beginning we had no idea what what was going to happen or how bad it was going to get. everybody was thinking to have spanish flu and the black plague but now we know. we know what has occurred. is this appropriate? >> well, you know, barbara ferrer, if anybody remembers in 2020 her mask mandate and rescinding it was at the time of the election. we will remove mask mandate after the election as though it had anything to do with covid. but anything coming out of la county i do take with a grain of salt. she's correct, griff, what was wasso ou

these people, barbara ferrer, that you saw there, pushing masking, they are power hungry and refuse to acknowledge covid is something we cannot prevents, but something we have to deal with. >> carley: l.a. can do what they want, the rest of the country is rolling our eyes, you have to learn to live with this virus at some point. l.a. county covid-19 numbers came out, 4000 new cases, 1116 new hospitalations and 14 deaths, we don't know if those people were hospitalized or died for another reason and tested positive for covid on the aside. a doctor says i do not consent to masking my kid ever again, no one, not law enforcement can mask my kid, doing so is akin to assault, please don't try, parents do not comply, this will never end if we do. >> todd: we've lost two years, why would we do anything to lose more? this is an abomination. >> carley: feels like we're going back to the covid zone, where you have dr. fauci saying this is not over. >> todd: biden said it was over. >> carley: he did and dmou this. apple ceo tim cook dodging fox's questions about crackdown on anti-lockdown proteste

so, at the rate things are going, do you expect the public health director barbara ferrer to reinstatef indoor masking there? >> if appropriate. i definitely expect she will instill a mask mandate probably within the next one to two weeks. that is where the trajectory of hospitalizations and infected people in los angeles is going. and it probably is going to skyrocket over the next few weeks. we have hanukkah, we have christmas, we have new year's where people congregate. so, you know, a word to the wise, an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure right now. >> all right. there's also a shortage. you know, with all of this, there is that shortage of acetaminophen and ibuprofen, great tools to help bring fevers down for -- especially for our little people. so what's your advice to parents? when they cannot find that on the shelves ot their nearest pharmacy, what can they do? >> well, first of all, if the fever becomes very high, over 102, 103, call your pediatrician or physician. otherwise, good old-fashioned remedies to try to lower the fever, putting ice on the child's forehead,

la county public health director barbara ferrer says the flu positivity rate has hit 25% that infection rate is the highest officials have seen for this time of year in 4 years. there are a few things that you can do to keep yourself healthy and safe, though. >> good hygiene, good hand washing and the use of mask. okay. which we know that have worked very effectively. but we have vaccines that could prevent influenza not only for children, but also in adults right at the same time we have vaccines that can protect against covid. >> it's not too late to get a seasonal flu shot. officials say that you should get one if you haven't gotten one. the cdc estimates there have been 78,000 flu hospitalizations and 4500 deaths across the country. so far this year, the california medical board as it is rejecting calls for reform from the victims of medical malpractice. victims testified yesterday the board's quarterly meeting. they're asking for a patient bill of rights and reforms to remove what they call dangerous doctors. the board says many of the safety protocols are already included in its c

the los angeles county public health director barbara ferrer says if the county reaches the cdcs level of high transmission and hospitalizations, l a county might once again require masking indoors. right now, the current transmission level stands at medium and days after mass protests in china, the government there is lifting or at least easing. some of the covid lockdown straight covid testing requirements. police patrols in quarantine rules all easy enough in shanghai, beijing and at least six other major cities. this is allowing some supermarkets, for instance, restaurants, gyms and transit systems to resume normal business or operations, while china's major cities have seen a change in covid restrictions, much of the rest of the country, though, remains under the tough regulations. back now to our storm in the sierra. it was a slow roll. 50 remains closed. 80 is closed was closed but is now back open. melanie wingo reports from soda springs tonight. the month of december, ushered in by a needed and welcome storm system. but along with new sierra snow came highway hangups and heada

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