though change is coming. we are moving to a time when covid isn t a crisis, but it is something we can protect against and treat. reporter: nbc news learned the agency could loosen its stance on masks as early as next week, but today, authorities said hospitals remain far too stressed, even as cases, deaths and hospitalizations drop. we want to give people a break from things like mask wearing when the metrics are better. reporter: while the cdc insists it is following the science, governors are easing mandates amongst public pressure saying so are they. california, the latest to roll back mandates. today, no outdoor mask requirement in los angeles for mega events like the rams parade that drew thousands. however, the city still requires them indoors. meantime, organizers at coachella and stage coach won t mandate masks, vaccinations or negative tests for tens of
lbj: triumph and tragedy premieres february 20th here on cnn. hope to see you back here tomorrow. you can listen to our podcast. download inside politics wherever you get your podcasts. ana cabrera picks up our coverage right now. have a great day. hello. it s great to have you here. i m ana cabrera in new york. the pressure to move on from covid is on. some states aren t waiting for the cdc to recommend lifting mask mandates in schools and elsewhere. and we re not just talking about red states. the democratic governors of new jersey, delaware, connecticut and california, some of the hardest hit states during omicron surge are now taking steps to roll back mandates. it s a tense debate we ve seen play out across the nation for neeshl two years. here was the scene at a school board meeting in illinois just last night.
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of south carolina where i am right now, literally half of our counties, of the 46 counties in south carolina, you re not having hospital that has over 100 beds and eight of those counties don t have a single hospital at all. that s the difference when you look at new york city that has 60 plus hospitals in that one city. we have a problem in small america, and we need to start talking about how we re going to support those areas that unfortunately are led by gop, you know, governors that are rolling back mandates. they re rolling back mask mandates, vaccine mandates, and it s putting our people at risk of not only death, not only hospitalization that can cripple them financially but also of long covid of which we see out of the university of pennsylvania that 50% of all persons who have been infected, they expect to develop long covid symptoms literally six months. we had 52 million americans infected at this point, we have a big problem. some of those people with long covid had muld
this morning, new york city became the first in the u.s. to require proof of vaccination in indoor restaurant dining, gyms, performances. i just put my vaccine card in a photo album on my phone. i imagine others will do that soon. surges everywhere, with nearly 40 states doubling cases in two weeks. officials and politicians are finding themselves in cross hairs after premature celebrations that the pandemic was on the way out. now issues that made the pandemic a lightning rod are back. should cities, counties, bring back mandates, capacity, should they implement vaccine requirements. we ll hear from president biden on the coronavirus response and global vaccination efforts. as i said at the top, nowhere is the surge more acute than florida, nowhere more acute than florida than in jacksonville. let me bring in somebody i have known a long time, the mayor,