>>> > > > WE BEGIN WITH THE ASTONISHING COVID NUMBERS. THE U.S. IS NOW AVERAGING GREATER THAN 237,000 BRAND-NEW DAILY INSTANCES, AND SEVERAL STATES ARE NEAR ALL-TIME HEIGHT COVID HOSPITALIZATION LEVELS. CURRENTLY THE PLAIN INCREASE COMES AS THE CDC REVEALED IT'' S CUTTING THE RECOMMENDED ISOLATION DURATION FOR ASYMPTOMATIC INFECTED AMERICANS IN HALF. RATHER THAN STEERING CLEAR OF FROM VARIOUS OTHER PEOPLE FOR TEN DAYS THE CDC SAYS STAY AT HOME FOR SIMPLY FIVE, THAT'' S IF YOU ' RE ASYMPTOMATIC BY DAY 5. NOW THE AGENCY CLAIMS THE MODIFICATION IS DRIVEN BY INFORMATION SHOWING THE MAJORITY OF COVID TRANSMISSION HAPPENS ONE TO 2 DAYS BEFORE SOMEONE HAS SYMPTOMS, AND ALSO IN A 2 TO THREE DAYS AFTER. WANT TO OBTAIN STRAIGHT TO CNN MEDICAL CORRESPONDENT ELIZABETH COHEN. THIS IS A MAJOR CHANGE. WHAT SORT OF PRECIPITATED THIS? >> > > WHAT SPED UP IS, PHIL, WAS THE FIGURE YOU JUST PROVIDED IN WHICH THEY CLAIMED, LOOK, IF YOU'' RE MOST SYMPTOMATIC RIGHT PRIOR TO AND ALSO 2 OR 3 DAYS AFTER DIRECT EXPOSURE, WHY ARE WE RETAINING INDIVIDUALS OUT FOR TEN DAYS? THEY STARTED TO SEE WE'' RE LOSING DOCTORS.WE ' RE LOSING NURSES AND ALSO PEOPLE, FOR EXAMPLE FUNCTIONS WORK FOR AIRLINE COMPANIES WHICH IS WHY YOU'' RE SEEING NUMEROUS CANCELLED FLIGHTS SO THEY CLAIMED LET'' S TAKE THESE STEPS. I MUST SAY WHEN I SPEAK WITH INFECTIOUS CONDITION PROFESSIONALS THAT HAVE ALWAYS FELT VERY COMPLIMENTARY TO SLAM THE CDC AND ALSO DO SO OFTEN THEY WERE REALLY IN ASSISTANCE OF THIS, SO LET'' S HAVE A LOOK ONCE AGAIN AT WHAT YOU WERE SIMPLY CHATTING ABOUT. SO THE CDC USED TO SAY SEPARATE FOR TEN DAYS IF YOU HAVE COVID.NOW THEY SAY IF YOU ' RE ASYMPTOMATIC,'YOU HAVE COVID BUT YOU ' RE ASYMPTOMATIC OR YOU HAVE SYMPTOMS AND ALSO THEY ARE OBTAINING BETTER, SEPARATE FOR FIVE DAYS AND AFTERWARDS PUT ON A MASK AROUND OTHERS FOR 5 DAYS. CURRENTLY, LET ' S SAY YOU ' RE EXPOSED,'A PERSON IN'YOUR HOUSEHOLD, FOR EXAMPLE, HAS COVID. YOU WEAR'' T HAVE COVID BUT YOU HAVE BEEN EXPOSED. THEY USED TO SAY TO QUARANTINE. CURRENTLY THEY ARE CLAIMING IF YOU ' VE BEEN VACCINATED AND HAVE OBTAINED A BOOSTER OR IF YOUR SECONDLY SHOT WAS WITHIN THE PAST SIX MONTHS, NO QUARANTINE IS NECESSARY BUT DO WEAR A MASK FOR 10 DAYS. THE FACTOR FOR THAT, THE CDC SAYS THAT AS LONG AS YOU'' VE HAD A BOOSTER DOSE, THAT YOU ARE 75%SECURED AGAINST OMICRON INFECTION. SO THEY ARE SAYING IF YOU'' RE 75 %SAFEGUARDED AGAINST OMICRON, YOU'' RE NOT SICK, YOU DON'' T HAVE IT, YOU ' RE NOT SHOWING INDICATIONS, WHY SHOULD YOU BE QUARANTINED? SO, YOU RECOGNIZE, THIS WILL CERTAINLY REALLY ENTER INTO PLAY AS OMICRON BEGINS SPREADING IN BIGGER NUMBERS THROUGHOUT THE UNITED STATES.WE ' LL
SEE HOW THIS NEW PLAN EXERCISES. PHIL? >> > > YEAH. NO INQUIRY ABOUT IT. I DO WANT A QUICK FOLLOW-UP. THE CDC SIMPLY REVEALED THE NUMBER OF NEW SITUATIONS CREATED BY OMICRON WAS LESS THAN 60% RECENTLY. I WAS A LITTLE BAFFLED WHEN I SAW THAT NUMBER CONTRASTED TO WHAT WE'' VE SEEN THE LAST NUMBER OF WEEKS. WHAT DO YOU MAKE OF THESE NEW NUMBERS? >> > > YEAH, IT ' S REALLY CONFUSING WHAT ' S HAPPENED RIGHT HERE, AND ALSO I ' M GOING TO SPELL THIS ALL OUT AS WELL AS SHOT TO TYPE OF GO SLOWLY.SO THE CDC EVERY
WEEK PUTS OUT RECORDS. ALL THE NEW CIRCUMSTANCES AROUND, “X” PERCENT ARE DELTA AND “Y”%ARE “ONLY CRONE AS WELL AS THEY HAVE BEEN DOING “THIS THROUGHOUT THE PANDEMIC. THE CDC CLAIMED THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 18th, THEY PREVIOUSLY CLAIMED NEW CASES WERE 73%OMICRON AND EVERYONE WAS LIKE, WOW, THAT GOT HUGE VERY RAPIDLY. NOW THEY ARE SAYING, WE ' RE REVISING THAT QUOTE. WE'THINK IT ' S ACTUALLY 23 %. THAT IS'OBVIOUSLY A GIGANTIC DISTINCTION, AND THEY SAY THE WEEK OF DECEMBER 19th With 25th WAS 59%, SO OMICRON DOES NOT SEEM TO BE SPREADING QUITE AS QUICKLY.DELTA IS STILL HOLDING ITS OWN. HOW DID THIS HAPPEN? IT IS UNCLEAR. SOMETHING THAT WE UNDERSTOOD, YOU RECOGNIZE, PEOPLE THINK, PHIL, THAT EVERY– THAT WE DO GENETIC SEQUENCING FOR EVERY INSTANCE, WE DON'' T. WE HAVE TO DO ESTIMATES. WE DO A FEW AND AFTERWARDS WE'PRICE QUOTE, BUT IT ' S A LITTLE A TROUBLE THAT THIS OCCURRED SINCE YOU START PRODUCTION THERAPY DECISIONS BASED ON THESE NUMBERS, AS WELL AS THAT NUMBER AUSTIN POWERS TO HAVE BEEN WILDLY OFF. PHIL? >> >
> YEAH.THAT MAY EVEN BE AN EXAGGERATION STILL. ADVANCEMENT AND ALSO REALTIME. ELIZABETH COHEN, MANY THANKS FOR CLARIFYING IT TO US, SLOWLY. APPRECIATE IT AS ALWAYS. >>> > > > INTEND TO BRING IN PREVIOUS BALTIMORE HEALTH COMMISSIONER DR. LEANA WEN. PHYSICIAN BEFORE WE SORT OF GO THROUGH THINGS RIGHT HERE, I DESIRED YOU TO TAKE A LISTEN TO HOW DR. ANTHONY FAUCI TYPE OF WALKED WITH THE NEW GUIDELINES FROM THE CDC ON CNN LAST NIGHT. >> > > SO IT JUST MAKES GOOD SENSE IF YOU KEEP THEM OUT FOR FIVE DAYS, MAINTAIN THEM ISOLATED FOR FIVE DAYS, THEN GET THEM BACK DOING THEIR JOB, DOING THEIR WORK, MAINTAINING A MASK ON PROTECTING THEMSELVES FROM INFECTING OTHER INDIVIDUALS, SO I WEAR'' T THINK IT ' S CONFUSING.I THINK THAT'' S A RATHER >> CRISP RECOMMENDATION. > > DR. WEN, I BELIEVE ONE OF THE QUESTIONS THE CDC WAS CITING RESEARCH STUDY AS WELL AS SCIENCE AND ALSO DATA BEHIND THE CHOICE HERE, BUT I ASSUME THERE'' S BEEN SOME QUESTION IS THIS AS A RESULT OF THE RANGE OF THE SPREAD, A CHOICE CONCERNING KEEPING COMPANIES OPEN? IS IT A MEDICAL DECISION? IS IT A POLITICAL DECISION? IS ALL OF IT OF THEM COMBINED? WHERE ARE WE ON THIS? >> > > WELL, PHIL,'I ' M RELIEVED THAT THE CDC CAME OUT WITH THIS ADVICE BECAUSE WE ARE ENCOUNTERING THE BREWING COLLAPSE OF A LOT OF FUNCTIONS IN OUR SOCIETY.WE ALREADY WILL GO BEYOND THE TOP OF COVID CASES LAST WINTER, AS WELL AS INCIDENTALLY, WE ' RE VASTLY UNDERCOUNTING RATHER BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE UNABLE TO OBTAIN TESTS AND LIKEWISE FAST TESTS ARE NOT BEING REPORTED TO PUBLIC WELLNESS AUTHORITIES. WE COULD VERY WE ' LL GET TO THE POINT OF HAVING A MILLION NEW COVID INFECTIONS EVERYDAY. WHEN WE ' RE AT THAT TYPE OF LEVEL YOU CAN ' T KEEP PEOPLE OUT FOR TEN DAYS IN SECLUSION BECAUSE WE'' RE NOT GOING HAVE COPS OFFICERS. WE ' RE NOT GOING TO'HAVE FIREFIGHTERS. WE'' RE NOT GOING TO HAVE FOOD SOLUTION WORKERS. WE ' RE JUST NOT GOING TO HAVE A FUNCTIONING SOCIETY SO I ' M EASED THAT THE CDC CAME TO THIS CHOICE. IT IS BASED ON THE SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH AS WELL. ALTHOUGH I WILL CERTAINLY SAY IDEALLY WHAT WE REALLY WANT IS TO HAVE An EXAMINATION IN ORDER NO EXIT SECLUSION, TO MAKE CERTAIN THAT YOU ' RE NO LONGER INFECTIOUS. AS WE KNOW THERE AREN ' T SUFFICIENT EXAMINATIONS SO I ASSUME'THIS IS THE VERY BEST OF BOTH WORLDS, IF YOU WILL, THAT IT ' S REALLY A PRACTICAL DECISION BASED ON SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH BUT ULTIMATELY DRIVEN BY PRACTICALITIES, BECAUSE THAT ' S WHAT PUBLIC WELLNESS IS ABOUT.IT ' S ABOUT MEETING THE REALITIES ON THE GROUND. IT ' S NOT ABOUT AIMING FOR PERFECT.
IT'' S RECOGNIZING THAT WE ' RE IN AN IMPERFECT AND ALSO QUITE DIRE SCENARIO, AS WELL AS THIS IS THE FACTOR'WHY WE HAVE TO REDUCE THAT ISOLATION PERIOD. > > BUT YOU APPEAL A REALLY ASSET WHEN I WAS ANALYSIS VIA THE KNEW ASSISTANCE THE OTHER DAY. >> I MAINTAINED WAITING AS SOON AS YOU CHECK TWO TIMES WITH AN ANTIGEN AREA, THE NBA SAYS ATHLETES CONTAINER RETURN SIX DAYS AFTER EXAMINING POSITIVE IF THE EXAMINATIONS SHOW THEY ARE NO LONGER INFECTIOUS. IS A DEARTH OF EXAMINATIONS WHY THE CDC DIDN ' T PROBLEM A SIMILAR PRE-REQUISITE HERE? > > I BELIEVE SO, AND ALSO I WANTED THEY JUST APPEARED AS WELL AS SAID IT SIMILARLY THAT BACK LAST MARCH WHEN THE CDC WAS NOT SUGGESTING MASKS AND WAS GIVING ALL TYPE OF OTHER REASONS FOR WHY COVERS UP WERE NOT RERNLGSD I DESIRED THAT THEY HAD COME OUT THEN AS WELL AS STATED THE GENUINE FACTOR IS THAT WE DON ' T HAVE ENOUGH MASKS FOR WELLNESS TREATMENT EMPLOYEES, AND, AS A RESULT, WE NEEDS TO BE CONSERVING THESE HIGH-QUALITY MASKS FOR HEALTHCARE EMPLOYEES, NOT THAT COVERS UP AREN ' T NEEDED BUT THAT WE DON ' T HAVE ENOUGH MASKS.I THINK THIS IS THE VERY SAME THING RIGHT HERE, TOO. EXAMINATIONS ARE ACTUALLY REQUIRED IN ORDER TO EXIT ISOLATION, BUT IF WE DON ' T EVEN HAVE SUFFICIENT EXAMINATIONS TODAY TO EXAMINATION SYMPTOMATIC PEOPLE
, THEN WE CAN NOT POSSIBLY CONCERN An ASSISTANCE FOR ALL OF AMERICA TO LEAVE SECLUSION IN THIS WAY SO PRACTICAL FACTORS, AND ALSO'I WANTED THEY LOOMED ABOUT THE SENSIBLE FACETS OF WHY THEY ARE MAKING THIS DECISION, WHICH I STILL THINK IS THE RIGHT ONE. > > YEAH. IT ' S– IT ' S A BIG QUESTION MARK FOR ME THOUGH. I THINK THAT ' S PROBABLY THE LIKELY SOLUTION, AS YOU CLAIMED. LAST ONE BEFORE I LET YOU GO >>. WE'' VE BEEN WATCHING CIRCUMSTANCES, PEDIATRIC CIRCUMSTANCES OF COVID I THINK SKYROCKET TO SOME EXTENT, AT THE VERY LEAST IN PLACES FRESH YORK CITY. THEY ARE UNSCIENTIFIC. WE ' VE SEEN THEM JUMP NO, QUESTION ABOUT THAT. PEDIATRIC HOSPITALIZATIONS IN NEW YORK CITY CITY ENHANCED FIVEFOLD AND ALSO CHILDREN ' S MEDICAL FACILITY IN CHICAGO QUADRUPLED IN A WEEK. NEAR FIFTY PERCENT EVERY ONE OF THE TESTS AT CHILDREN ' S HOSPITAL IN D.C. ARE RETURNING FAVORABLE. YOU ' RE A MAMA AND 2 UNVACCINATED CHILDREN OUT OF THREE. WHAT ARE YOU CLAIMING TO PARENTS IN TERMS OF RECOMMENDATIONS AS WE ALL SEEK TO SCHOOL RESTARTING RIGHT HERE IN ABOUT A WEEK IN TERMS OF HOW TO MANAGE THIS MINUTE IN TIME? > > YEAH.IT ' S A DANGEROUS TIME FOR OUR YOUNGSTERS. THE SPIKE IN INFECTIONS THAT WE ' RE SEEING IN KIDS IS NOT UNEXPECTED BECAUSE> WE ' RE SEEING THE SPIKE IN ADULTS, AND WE KNOW THAT PEOPLE THAT ARE VACCINATED AS WELL AS BOOSTED ARE EXTREMELY WELL SHIELDED AGAINST EXTREME ILLNESS, BUT OUR YOUNGSTERS, LOTS OF WHOM ARE STILL UNVACCINATED, ARE NOT SAFEGUARDED DUE TO THE FACT THAT THEY ARE NOT VACCINATED, AND SO I WOULD SAY FOR CHILDREN AGES 5 AND ABOVE, OBTAIN YOUR VACCINE OR TO THE PARENTS OF THESE KIDS TO GET THESE KIDS THE VACCINES.THAT WILL PROTECT THEM. FOR YOUNGSTERS YOUNGER THAN 5 THE BEST WE CAN DO IS SURROUND THEM BY INDIVIDUALS THAT ARE VACCINATED AS WELL AS BOOSTED. I WOULD STILL SAY SEND YOUR KIDS TO SCHOOL, BUT IDEALLY, AGAIN, THE COLLEGES NEED TO BE IMPLEMENTING THESE– THESE PROTECTIVE ACTIONS THAT WE UNDERSTAND ARE EFFECTIVE. WE UNDERSTAND THAT MASKING IN SCHOOLS, ESPECIALLY WITH THE TOP QUALITY MASKS, ARE EXTREMELY PROTECTIVE. WE UNDERSTAND THAT SCREENING CONTAINER HELP TO KEEP CHILDREN IN COLLEGE SAFELY, SO THOSE ARE THE KINDS OF STEPS THAT WE MUST BE IMPLEMENTING. MAINTAIN YOUR CHILDREN IN SCHOOL. BORDER THEM WITH INDIVIDUALS WHO ARE VACCINATED AND ALSO REDUCE RISK IN OTHER WAYS. DON ' T ALSO HAVE INDOOR PLAY DATES. FOCUS ON KEEPING OUR KIDS IN SCHOOL LEARNING. > > YEAH. THERE ARE PLAN AN.
