vaccinated can hug grandkids who have not. the rules don t go far enough for some. the airline industry which today pushed back on cdc guidance that recommends even the vaccinated avoid travel. every time there is a surge in travel, we have a surge of cases in this country. many of our variants have emerged from international places and we know the travel corridor is a place where people are mixing a lot. the guidelines state that people including those fully vaccinated should continue to wear a mask. today wyoming s governor joined those in texas and miss issippi announcing an end to the mask mandate. in an interview with politico dr. fauci can see the hamask mandate for those vaccinated pulled off soon but not this soon. the house is expected to pass a $2 trillion covid relief bill that contains money for vaccinations and schools and low income americans, children, the unemployed and make health care coverage more affordable. bernie sanders can join us to talk about tha
case in point, the airline industry which today pushed back on cdc guidance that recommends even the vaccinated avoid travel. this was the cdc director s explanation for why. every time there is a surge in travel, we have a surge of cases in this country. we know that many of our variants have emerged from international places and we know that the travel corridor is a place where people are mixing a lot. the guidelines state that people including those fully vaccinated should continue to wear a mask. today wyoming s governor joined those in texas and mississippi announcing an end to the mask mandate. and that bars, gyms, and other businesses can re-open. in an interview with politico dr. fauci can see the mask mandate for those vaccinated pulled off gradually. soon but not yet. the house is expected to pass a $2 trillion covid relief bill that contains money for vaccinations and schools and low income americans, children, the unemployed, and to make health care coverage m
to meet on september 12th to talk about recommending the covid vaccines for the fall. that always happens after the fda has signed off on these. so that s expected to happen around the same time. and once the cdc director accepts the recommendation, these will starts to become available. we re talking about perhaps that week around september 12th, by the end of that week folks can start going out to their pharmacies. these updated vaccines target a single strain of one of the more recent circulating variants called xbb.1.5. the currently dominant circulating variant is called eg5 it represents about 20% of cases in the u.s., at least that s the estimate as of a couple weeks ago. and it s not expected to be particularly different in terms of protection from the xbb1.5-targeted vaccines. the companies say this provides good protection. and we are in a little about of a covid uptick now. wastewater monitoring is higher suggesting higher case levels. and hospitalizations and deaths are bot
Health officials in Washington and Oregon said Thursday that a fall and winter COVID surge is likely headed to the Pacific Northwest after months of relatively low case levels.
american life continue as much as normally as possible, even with case levels really exponentially growing, as you ve been indicating. they also want to make sure they re doing everything by the science. this is an administration that has always said they re following the science. walensky has been stressing throughout the day that this five-day isolation period rather than ten days is something that s a result of that balancing test. because we know the symptoms and transmissibility tends to occur two to three days after or one to two days before, that s what led their decision to the five-day system. but what walensky was also stressing in multiple interviews today in addition to this briefing was the fact that, a, you have to make sure you re asymptomatic, but b, there s no limit. if you want to isolate even further, you should be encouraged to do so even further. but especially to continue to wear the masks. so as the administration is now ending this calendar year, obviously presi