the data will be made available later today on the cdc's data tracker. we do not know yet about the clinical severity in comparison to our other sub variance but we do know it to be more transmissible and more in the innovating. people with prior infection even with ba.4 and ba.5 are likely still at risk. we continue to learn more about these omicron lineages and the cdc is closely monitoring the public health impact they have. several factors will play a role in how ba.4 and ba.5 will impact the united states and impact of the sub variance will likely be felt differently around the country. these factors include the level of vaccinations into boosting in communities. the amount of prior infection a community has experienced and the level of public health mitigation measures that are in place. while there is no evidence available to suggest that ba.4 or ba.5 caused more severe disease, and we are still collecting data on the vaccine effectiveness against . ba.5, we know vaccine effectiveness against severe disease and death remains high for others sub lin

i am doing today by head of the cdc dr. rochelle walensky to help us make sense of the latest virus surge and what is to come. welcome to washington post live. dr. walensky: thank you so much. delighted to be with you. host: let's start with the president's health. more than 500,000 americans have tested for positive for covid this week. joe biden is one of them. if we can't protect the president from it, what does it say about how we protect the most vulnerable americans. dr. walensky: a really important question. good wishes to the president for a speedy recovery. we know he is on paxlovid. in addition to receiving the vaccine and booster shots. we know now that there is a lot of covid out there. a 500,000 documented cases this week. hospitalizations have been on the rise and's early april. and what we are doing is the messages we have been sending all along. if you are in an area of high covid-19 community level, that is about 60% of the population living in those counties. we are asking people to take the necessary preca

would you follow the cdc guidance here? dr. walensky: our guidance says if you decide to go ahead and do a test and it's positive, to go ahead and stay home. i'm saying not every american has the capacity to do those tasks. and a very good surrogate for a test if you don't have the capacity is to wait for five days, see if your symptoms have resolved. if so, you are pretty low risk of continuing transmission but because you are still some risk, we have recommendations to go ahead and wear a mask. i believe that is a safe way forward. host: tell me more about the wave of infections and what we are facing. the contagious ba.5 variant has been blamed for the recent surge. the waves of variants leading to more infections in the foreseeable future? dr. walensky: we have seen numerous waves of subvariants of omicron. we saw ba.1, ba.2, the ba.2121, ba.4 and ba.5. those have been since thanksgiving or christmas. so we have always and anticipation that there could be another omicron subvariant coming. and a potential for another variant

>> the cdc has very clear particles on this. in terms of when people are contagious and before symptoms. they are conducting contact tracing and every single person who meets the definition. >> they recommend wearing masks and people back and forth in that category. i can't remember where he is on the orange, yellow and green map, so double bottom line is we follow the cdc guidelines and in terms of mask wearing based on cdc's community levels. >> will they be more cautious and isolate -- >> we go beyond the cdc guidelines, so certainly i say for at least five days and he will return to normal activities after he's had a negative test. >> i want to touch on a couple of things. so, right now we heard from the doctor, his personal doctor he had mild symptoms and he's continuing to do the work of the presidency frompr his residence and i think that's important. every person reacts differently so it is a hypothetical. we are going to keep an eye on him and i think what's important though, and i really want to take this opportunity to

but i want to ask you first about the cdc moratorium on eviction. when was that put in place and did that solve the problem or further complicate the problem? >> i think housing experts would tell you that it helped solve the problem. so the cdc, the centers for disease control and prevention issued a moratorium in september of 2020. it was a more broad and farther reaching moratorium than what had initially been implemented as part of the cares act. so when the cdc moratorium came into play, it made, it gave wider protections to tenants and it helped millions of people, tens of millions of renters who were facing eviction, and it really helped them feel, i think, more secure, like they had rights. >> do you think that the part of the problem is complicated between the cdc moratorium and each state having its own laws that govern evictions and renters rights? >> that was another really interesting thing, right? we all heard this phrase, eviction moratorium. it was so bizarre because never before in history has anybody thought of and eviction moratori

kristen: you mentioned the cdc online resources about monkeypox. here is the resources more information about social gatherings, safer sex, how to protect yourself do cdc.gov/ monkeypox. coming up, dr. patel will join us to weigh in on the cc response every search you make, every click you take, every move you make, every step you take, i'll be watching you. the internet doesn't have to be duckduckgo is a free all in one privacy app with a built in search engine, web browser, one click data clearing and more stop companies like google from watching you, by downloading the app today. duckduckgo: privacy, simplified. kristen: you heard from the cdc and our last segment explain some of the challenges of federal government is trying to overcome with regards to procuring more monkeypox vaccines and tests. joining us now to talk about monkeypox and the latest covid news including the possible return of mask mandates, abc news special correspondent dr. patel. thank you for joining us. >> happy friday to you. >> we will start with monkeypox, you heard the a

the schedule is normal? >> you have to isolate for five days. cdc says you can resume after five days without a negative test as long as you are wearing a well fitted mask. we go well beyond that in the white house and the president will get tested and as long as these isolated for five days getting the cdc requirement, we will wait until he gets a negative test, negative antigen test r before he returns to the activities. >> is he staying in one room, a series of rooms, what's the situation? >> he's isolated in the white house residence. the white house can be -- president can be a president anywhere. it doesn't matter where he's located. heec has the technologies and te tools. what he needs. there's been no change to the protocol. >> i've got to go around. your colleagues are going to kill me. >> did he start experiencing the cough last night or all the symptoms last night? >> when did he start experiencing fatigue? ... t>> and then when doctor o'connor probed him further on symptomsi that's when he mentioned. so i really think his symptoms either

and the cdc couldn't detecting could be utilized for a diagnosis. so we got in our own way several times. >> yeah. testingou was one of the misstes i suppose is an understatement. there were some other areas. let's think about personal protective equipment. we remember early on with new york hospitals flooded with cases and cases spreading around the world and we ended up with u the shortage of personal protective equipment. and also a lot of confusion around the science messaging in terms of masking and what kind of masks. one of the things you said in your book really i learned a lot on why did we assume the n95 respirators that people wouldn't wear them. talk a little bit about the shortages and other shortages ventilation oxygen and then zero in on that and the early days of masking and even today masks have become aom flashpoint. >> soyou know really critical important question larry because we are vulnerable today to lack of essential medicines and it was clear and it's clear now the disruptions in the supply chain and we don't have any of thos

nationwide the cdc predicts the number of new infections will increase. the cdc says while the numbers are up, the cases are mild. >> they're being admitted into acute care, not the icu. >> reporter: the hospital admissions rate for that group is nearing last summer's peak. >>> and the cdc says in california, arizona, hawaii and nevada hospital admissions for americans 70 and older is already worse than last summer's peak. an air quality advisory has been, tenbeen extended for at least tomorrow. officials say the marsh fire has been burning for six weeks after it started at a bay point homeless encampment. they say expect air quality to be at its worst late tonight into tomorrow morning. let's get over to meteorologist jessica for a look at forecast across the bay area. >> thanks, amanda. for now at least air quality in the bay area remains in the green. that's thanks to a lot of contributing factors. an on-shore flow is keeping us cool and fresh in san francisco. a little bit left of that fog close to the golden gate bridge. let's just tilt the camera. a

>> this is a place where the cdc is working with the department of health.is an unvaccinated individual. thankfully, most americans are vaccinated against polio. most of the world is vaccinated against polio. if, obviously, you are not vaccinated against polio, critically important. >> i have a small child. it takes time to get fully vaccinated. should i be concerned that there are polio cases spreading in new york and in the united states? >> there is a lot of surveillance that we to for polio. wastewater surveillance goes on. we are not seeing out of bbreak polio. again, so many americans are vaccinated against this. >> dr. jha, thank you for your time. "face the nation" will be back in a moment. stay with us. th magic eraser and photograph all skin tones accurately with real tone google pixel 6a switch it up, and get the all new google pixel 6a. all for a smarter price. i get bladder leaks. i didn't want to feel like i was wearing the pads i wore when i was twelve. then i tried the always discreet pads. they fit perfectly in the places they're supposed to

will pose the question directly to cdc. they are in the business of prevention. they are in the business of education. we will be using every agency, including the cdc to make sure we are getting to americans the information they need so they can exercise their rights. the cdc will play an important role, especially as we look at this on a grander scale of the impact of public health. >> another question at this point. new york times. >> i am cheryl from new york times. with respect to medication abortion, is this the position of the department that because the fda has approved these pills that any doctor in any state may prescribe them? second, with respect to planned parenthood, you know planned parenthood has been excluded from medicaid family-planning programs in certain states, including missouri. is that the department's position that those violations are violations of federal law? sec. becerra: because those are precise questions i will try to give you as precise an answer as i can and with my legal counsel in front o

but the texas courts decided that the cdc order no longer applied in texas, as crazy as that is. allowing landlords to evict people at will. >> in texas, you have one of the first states to challenge the cdc moratorium, and successfully so. >> narrar: throughout the pandemic, emily benfer was tracking how states were handling evictions. >> much of a tenant's experience during the pandemic was completely dependent upon the zip code that they lived in. whether or not you stayed in that home depended almost entirely upon whether or not your landlord was going to comply with the cdc moratorium-- or a local moratorium, for that matter-- what sheriff showed up at your door, and what judge you appeared before. ♪ ♪ >> narrator: there were some judges in texas still willing to consider the cdc moratorium. >> ...in the county of dallas in the state of texas, the honorable judge katina whitfield presiding, is now in session. >> good morning, everybody. let's get started here. sir, can you hear me? >> um, yes, ma'am. >> oh, okay great. >> in texas, a federal court judge did state that the cd

the president. all of his meetings have been virtual. he is following cdc guidance when it comes to a very, very small footprint around him, as he saw the videographer, the photographer was with him. they were socially distanced at six feet. they were n95 masks. we are making sure he is isolating and keeping to the cdc guidelines. >> the videographer, the dog refer, a small footprint. -- the videographer, small footprint. karine: very small footprint. he is adhering to the cdc guidelines. >> following up, can we clarify for the record, the timeline of the president's illness? dr. o'connor's first letter said symptoms, the cough, started wednesday evening. in the briefing yesterday, dr. jha you said he was symptomatic wednesday morning. dr. jha: i spoke to the president asked him directly, on wednesday evening, two evenings ago, he felt fine all day, fine in the evening. the only thing he said he felt before bed was that he felt tired. he did not have a cough. he did not have any other symptoms on wednesday night. tiredness is part of covid or whether he had

the cdc issued a moratorium in 2020 and it was a more broad and far-reaching moratorium than what had initially been presented as part of the care zach so when the moratorium came into play , it made its, it gave wider protections to tenants and it helps millions of people, tens of millions of renters who were facing eviction and help them feel more secure. >> you think that part of the problem was complicated between the cdc moratorium and each state having its own laws that govern infections and renters rights? >> that was another interesting thing. we all heard this phrase eviction moratorium and itwas so bizarre because never before in history had anybody thought of an eviction moratorium . we really wanted to take a deep dive into that and explore what the eviction moratorium was because it sounded great. here was this national program is going to keep tenants house and give money to landlords but we found out is the way it was enforced and the way it played out came down to such a local level. not just a state level. not just a county level or even a city level but often times w

and that is also the issues of the cdc about our isolation periods. anything, where they say five days and you were good to go if you don't have symptoms, if anything, with ba.5, it may well be extending. but the median infection after covid is five days. not five days isolation. that is the median. 10 people out after five days, the cdc is ignoring that. still today, the cdc counts fully vaccinated as two doses. and for a year now, we have known the importance of boosters, even back to the delta variant, and it has never been the principal message, a life-saving potential for people at risk. especially by the cdc. william: help me understand what we ought to think about this drug, paxlovid. it did not turn out to be a preventative, but it did show promise in stopping people who were infected from getting very, very sick. there have been a lot of subsequent complications about it, and slow rollout of the use of that. what do you make of that drug? william: it is -- dr. topol: it is certainly one of the triumphs of the pandemic. it went from designing

. >>> the cdc says more tests will be coming to check for monkeypox. and california has now passed new york as the state with the most cases. aegis sciences will start testing for monkeypox and the cdc director says this will be a w big help. by the end of the month commercial labs should be able to handle 70,000 tests per week. we have more on the bay area monkeypox response and the signs to look out for on kpix.com. this is obviously not the only health issue our country is dealing with right now. doctors are pretty concerned about a new covid subvariant and more people ending up in the hospital. mask mandates may be making a comeback. >> reporter: los angeles county has reached what the cdc defines as a high level of covid infection as the number of hospitalizations keeps climbing. >> over the past few days we've had to hold patients in the emergency room 12 to 24 hours until we have beds available in our hospitals. if we continue at this pace in the next week or two, we may have to go back to those days where we are rationing care. >> reporter: heal

the cdc suggests he wears a mask around others. the president will follow cdc guidance. repoter: does the ba.5 variant affected the window where you have that immunity? dr. jha: what we know is that it is true in the past with previous variance, we used to say you have a 90 day warranty if you got infected. what we know because of ba.5 being so invasive, getting reinfected is very common. the duration of protection from ba.5, we do not have any data. we do not know. we will track that closely. we will continue to make sure he is up to date on his vaccines as time goes on, but we do not have any data. repoter: cdc guidance says also not to travel for 10 days. does that mean the president will not trouble? dr. jha: i do not know the details of the president's schedule. the president tends to follow the cdc's guidelines. right now, we are focused on that. repoter: will you see him in person? dr. jha: i have been speaking to the president on a regular basis, sometimes by phone or face time. dr. o'connor season. you want to limit the number of contexts. -- contacts. repoter: w

>> so, the cdc guidance on this is clear. le should isolate and they should be -- they should -- if they're going to be in close contact with anybody else, they should definitely be wearing a mask. the president was more than six feet away from the camera person, who was wearing an n95, again in that video that you saw, that was outside, so i think it was, from a safety point of view, very safe thing to do. >> thank you, doctor. >> if i could ask a question of dr. jha. >> i'm going to call on everybody. i promise. i'm going to call on everybody. go ahead. >> thanks, karine. can you explain the testing cadence and the rationale behind it? given the rise of ba.5 and the fact that the president's been traveling and having big events, why doesn't he get a daily test? >> the testing cadence is determined by dr. o'connor, his personal physician. he gets tested very regularly. i don't really think there's a huge advantage of testing, like, every day. >> had he tested yesterday morning, for example, he might have tested positive in ti

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and the cdc director says that will be a big help, getting more and more people tested. by the end of the month, commercial labs should be able to handle up to 70,000 tests each week. we have more on the bay area monkeypox response and the signs to look out for on kpix.com. coming up at 5:30, we'll talk with ucsf infectious disease expert dr. peter chin-hong about the monkeypox vaccine short, as well as rise in covid hospitalizations that has one california county on the brink of another indoor mask mandate. >>> this evening authorities investigating a fiery crash in antioch trhe scene of that crash. it happened around 10:30 this morning near james dolan and contra loma boulevards. officers say two cars were involved. one of them hit a tree and then caught fire. you can see in this video the extensive damage to that car. the victim inside had to be pulled from the burning vehicle. and the second victim was thrown from another car. police say they believe high speed played a role in the crash. and woman walking her dog heard it all happen. >> i hear cars driving super fast

the cdc was ridiculously stringent with what they gave out. so was hhs. but the australian parliament had done an inquiry into another outbreak so through the investigation done by australian parliament, that is where we got hundreds of leads and sources and pages. susan: has the corporation responded to your book since it has been published? michael: not so far. they gave us a boilerplate response to our book, it may be a couple of sentences basically saying they did everything they could to keep people safe, as they always do. but we have not really heard from them as the book was published. susan: let's get into some particulars about the zaandam. who owns and operates the ship? michael: it is part of the holland america line, one of the cruise lines owned by carnival corporation, the largest, one of the largest leisure companies in the world. it is basically under the carnival corporation. susan: what country is she flagged under? michael: different ships are flagged under different countries. the zaandam is under the dutch flag but the corporation has

and that's what the cdc says is concerning. that's the numbers that we will look at over the next two weeks to see whether or not that mask mandate is implemented again here in los angeles. but it is very likely, especially as we're celebrating the all star week this week here in los angeles, boris, kristin. >> that's a great point, camila bernal, thank you so much. >>> this morning we're also following a major spike in monkeypox cases here in the united states. the cdc now says there are more than 1,800 confirmed cases across the country. and that's nearly 500 of those cases are in new york state alone. so we're going to talk about this with dr. ann remoijn, an epidemiology professor who has spent the last two decades in the democratic republic of congo working on monkeypox, so you're certainly the expert to talk with. good morning, doctor. >> nice to be here. >> the u.s. government is going to produce 130,000 vaccine doses to try to fight the spread of monkeypox. people are looking for vaccines right now, and there's some rea

the samples are being sent to the cdc for confirmation. new at noon. police have made an arrest in a deadly shooting in san jose 83 year old bert mcelheny was arrested at his home in san jose and booked into the santa clara county jail this morning. he was wanted in connection with a deadly shooting on almond and road where a man was shot to death. the motive for the shooting is still under investigation. in another bay area. cold case. it's been 21 years since paula brian was found dead in san francisco. now family members are hoping a large reward and new technology will help bring their sister's killer to justice. as ktvu s amberleigh reports. relatives have never given up hope that the person responsible will be caught. a sister was so funny. so down to earth. two siblings share memories of their older sister, paula brian, who's homicide is an unsolved cold case with san francisco police for 21 years i feel like it just happened yesterday. it just it never it's just something that is just always on my mind every day. avoid that can't be filled ktvu

on the willingness to listen to others ideas. i think cdc is gotten quite insular by being in atlanta. and i do think they have to be much more open to relate looking transparently at the data and let it be dated teach them and get out there assumptions and into a place that is really data-driven. >> the idea at the beginning was a resistance asymptomatic spread was a major factor in the transmission of sars-cov-2 two. >> and larry that continued. that's what was so disconcerting to me. because obviously the fda those of usr who worked with the fda for very, long time understand the limitations of these control panels. usso they have developed a contl panel obviously from symptomatic disease because that is the only thing they were looking for. so the control panel to validate the new test were symptomatic disease. so as late as july i'm trying to convince them in the cdc that the antigen test had been used in the asymptomatic patients. it took an entire 12 months in addition to convince both of them that you t can use antigen tests prior to

>> i don't know what the cdc was thinking at that time. but i can tell you that they did not prepare the country for a countrywide pandemic that was evident already in china. and what do i mean by that? getting the data streams you needed. bringing in the commercial laboratory developers. it's great that work on tests for the public last but we know public health class are not what we call high throughput laboratories. the platforms they made to test for were in general platforms that could do a handful for less than 100 tests the day. they were going to need millions of tests per day so we had to get on board are commercial laboratories. until nancy made that comment in february i don't know. >> just so our audience knows your official at the cdc. >> when nancy said she was worried but that was the end of february. i was worried in six weeks earlier' i wasn't here. i didn't watch it play out. i tried not to. i don't know what data they had. i just know when i arrived on 2 march we were incredibly flat-footed as a country. you talk about mi

host: that was the cdc director. we are talking this morning about president biden's covid diagnosis and taking your calls. next up is harry in georgia, i am 71 years old. i'm afraid. on the other hand, if i had everyone taking care of me like he's taking care of, i'd be ok. host: let's go next to karen. bradenton, florida. republican. rep. raskin: hi. my best wishes to biden. i think the origin of the disease needs to be looked at. we don't seem to be investigating the cause of this disease. i think it has lost a lot of trusted people. fauci says it did not come from a lab, which we know is false. i think the trust is what the bottom line is. we have lost trust in our government. it has been so politicaliz ed. people want the truth and we have not gotten it. thank you. host: linda from rocky mount -- spring hills, florida. independent. caller: hi. hello? yes. i have a very, very strong thing about what have these people are talking about. first of all it was brand-new and trump did the right thing. no one knew what t

. >>> the global health emergency declared over the growing monkeypox outbreak inside the cdc response, why it believes the virus i spreading faster than before >>> and celebrating the tough guy actor beloved for his roles on both sides of the law. >> announcer: this is "nbc nightly news" with lester holt >>> good evening in a summer of extreme temperatures, the worst wildfire of the year is choking the skies of northern california tonight smoke advisories posted in the bay area due to a rampaging wildfire more than 175 miles away near yosemite it's already sent thousands in the path of the fire to seek safer ground the oak fire broke out friday near the park and has destroyed several structures and breaking in texas tonight, grass fires have destroyed at least eight homes in balk springs and forced evacuations there. meantime, back in california crews doing all they can to slow that big blaze before it makes another dangerous run. drought conditions ensuring plentiful fuel for the fire. miguel almaguer is on the front lines for us tonight. >> reporter: this is what california's wildfi

so it is how the cdc defines them. and that medical unit is informing people via email and phone call. they are not saying exactly who or how far back they're going, though, amanda. >> i'm sure with word of mouth, too. everyone that needs to know has heard. we're so happy to hear he's feeling okay. thank you. >>> to the coronavirus now. more on that. new data from the cdc shows that the ba.5 subvariant is causing about 80% of new infections in the u.s. the number of reinfections has doubled. researchers pointed out waning immunity andak e dy's defenses so wha e from t disease. experts say there is a pattern to the recovery process. >> well there is sort of two phases to the illness, the initial phase is when the virus is replicating and what which people get really sick is when you're immune system is responding that it is responding in this dysfunctional, hyper inflammatory way so it is the immune system response that is causing the disease. >> well the cdc said we're averaging more than 120,000 cases a day. but with

the cdc can be much more explicit. r guidelines have to be much more rooted in the actu experience of incarcerated people, sthey need to talk to incarcerated people. when they gon a tour, they cannot take a manicured tour from the jail officials. they need to sit down and have conversationwith people living this experience. amy: how many prisons and jails in this country? dr. venters: 3000 jails, about 2000 prisons, another 2000 juvenile and immigration centers. about 7000 of these boxes. if you think we have 5000 cases in the country today, that number can dramatically increase. amy: we have to leave it there, thank you for being with us.o o8

the labs and and just expand on that. you know, why was cdc seem to be so off based on its testing kits. i know at the and also talk about their communication with state epidemiologists and others, you know, just take us back through those early very very difficult days in our in our testing capacity in our test kits when i when when who had a test kit when our allies like germany were using better test kits cdc decided to develop its own. just tell us a little bit about that story. yet to this date. i you know, i don't know why it happened. i got so frustrated after i left january of 2021 the covid response. i talked to the laboratories our big commercial laboratories and said to you know, what kind of dialogue were you having with the cdc and hhs and asper and you know, how come we didn't have these tests and what was going on? and what they told me was they were actually calling the cdc. in january saying, how can we help? how can we help we can help develop commercial tasks. what do you think you're going to need and cdc told them they wer

the cdc says it's going to get worse. the number of people hospitalized has quadrupled.ril more than 1,000 people hospitalized. this month 4,400. most of the people hospitalized are not vaccinated or boosted. this ba.5 is making prior infections less effective. >> that was likely ba.2 or ba.2.12.1 because ba.5 is like resetting the clock. you can get infected or reinfected at, you know, four weeks to six weeks after your last infection. that three-month window will start again. >> reporter: last week they predicted hospitalization rates would continue to rise through the summer. now another two-dose covid vaccine has the cdc stamp of approval. but this one is different. here is the key. the board signed off on the novavax vaccine today for people 18 years of age or older. this vaccine does not use mrna technology like the pfizer and the moderna vaccine does. it uses technology that really is kind of like your old fashion traditional flu vaccine because it has an element of actual virus. the cdc hopes this will appeal to unvaccinated people who are a little worried. >>> t

country, i declared racism a serious -- a serious public health threat and found the cdc -- racial and ethnic disparities. one of the examples of that commitment is the awarding of $2 million to 18 -- 108 state local and territorial health department through the grant for the national initiative to declared racism as a series of look health threat and found the cdc will recommit itself to funding the systems of that have resulted in generational injustice and racial -- racial and ethnic verities one of the examples of that commitment is the awarding of $2 million to 18 -- 108 state local and territorial health department through the grant for the national initiative to address note covid-19 health disparities among populations of high risk and underserved. this is the cdc's largest investment to date, focused on reducing health disparities related to covid-19. one health threat we are also active entering his global outbreak of cases in working -- monkeypox. data suggests that by an homosexual men make up a high number of monkeypox cases. help encourage health care provid

that's the way we're going to snuff this out. now cdc has gotten in place more testing, adequate testing to broaden it to do that. >> problem with testing, also it seems that distribution or access to a vaccine is an issue. the mayor of new york, governor of new york asking the biden administration to do more to get them access y. is this a problem? >> we have inadequate vaccines. we took our eye off the ball of small position. they ordered about 300,000 doses that have been delivered. 150,000 have been distributed. another 130,000 -- >> what about overseas? >> there's 800,000 doses that were overseas that the manufacturer bavarian in order dick had overseas. fda has to do lock release. they have to inspect the doses to make sure they were appropriately manufactured. they're doing the same point as they're deploying the 800,000 doses. those are going to cities. as soon as fda finishes that, which should be this week, those doses can be distributed or used on patients. i think the vaccine situation is going to improve dramatically. you'll

ama: the cdc could approve a new covid-19 vaccine from novavax as soon as next week. e company claims its preclinical data shows the vaccine induces an immune response against all covid variants. new details, a man has died in a fiery crash after his car collided with a tree, hitting another vehicle this morning after 10:00 on james donelan boulevard near country loma in antioch, a road notoriously known for dragracing. the driver and passenger were treated for minor injuries. witnesses say both vehicles were speeding before the accident. >> this particular area comes down from a slope just east of us, so cars, motorists tend to get a lot of speed coming into this area. once we get more details, we are still looking at the evidence to re-create the collision. ama: the road is lined with memorials from other fatal accidents, including at that tree that was hit today. antioch police say they are working to crack on people driving recklessly throughout the city. new york police are investigating whether ivana trump fell from the stairs in her apartment where she was found