the major steel city of tung shun in eastern china with a population of eight million has followed shanghai in returning to a full covid lockdown. shanghai itself has reported covid 19 deaths for three days in a row. these are the first officially acknowledged deaths since 2020 but china has been accused of downplaying the numbers. our china correspondent stephen mcdonell says more than 7 million people are now confined in tungshun. tung shun is just one the many cities currently locked down. i mean, there are dozens of towns and cities locked down in china at the moment. you can imagine the impact on the economy here, on people s livelihoods, on the morale of the country. tung shun, apart from having, as you say, nearly 8 million people, is a steel city. they ve been in lockdown about a month ago and they ve gone back into lockdown. again, you know, that would be very bad news for the people who live there. and in shanghai, the city of 25 million people, the authorities really a
with what the government says, they re not coming downstairs to have their tests as they re supposed to do. because they re worried, firstly that they will catch covid and secondly, if they do catch covid, they might be forced to go into one of the centralised isolation facilities where they will be sleeping on camp beds, in huge hangers, next to people who may well be much more sick than they are. and this includes very old people, frail, elderly, people who are weak, people who have other sicknesses are being made to go to the squalid isolation facilities and it all seems to be part of this unwielding commitment to zero covid that the government here is sort of rolling out in a mantra type fashion and it s unable to shift policy. it s had this great policy that worked for so long with no vaccines, but itjust doesn t seem to fit
police chase. now we re learning the gunman was spouting extremist, violent views online. welcome to the lead. i m jake tapper. we start with our health lead and the biden administration s top doctor is on the defensive somewhat today amid a growing chorus of concern and complaints about the cdc s shortened recommended isolation period for some people who catch covid. on cnn this morning, the cdc director dr. rochelle walensky said several areas of science backed their decision but admitted the changes were partially driven by americans being fed up and refusing to follow the longer ten-day guideline already in place. in just moments, dr. anthony fauci will join us live to discuss all of this and much more. but we re going to start with tom foreman who takes a closer look at how hospitals are preparing for a possible surge of patients as omicron cases explode. the white house expects to sign a contract for a half
states that don t publicly report breakthrough cases, hospitalizations and deaths according to a rockefeller foundation study. biden s former covid adviser rick bright who will join us in the next hour says consistent data reporting is critical to track emergent spread and evolution of a spread. why is nevada not reporting this critical data? we do report deaths. i don t know where that came from. we re reporting deaths on a daily basis. breakthrough cases are more difficult when it comes to testing. we do not have the staff and resources some of the larger states have in order to get them. by the time we could assimilate that data it would be so old it wouldn t be effective anymore. we report cases on a daily basis and seven-day moving averages on a daily basis. hospitalizations and deaths on a daily basis, and try to be as transparent as possible. nevada democratic governor steve sisolak, thank you so much. our condolences on the loss of your friend. thank you. he was a good ma
let s talk about this with dr. anthony fauci, chief medical adviser to president biden. dr. fauci, let s start right there. you and dr. walensky say this reduction in recommended days for isolation from 10 to 5 is backed by science. but you hear there are some prominent scientists saying the data does not support the reduction to five days and the head of the biggest nurses union here says the decision is going to cause more covid to spread more rapidly. is she wrong? i don t think there s any right or wrong here. there s differences of opinion. the cdc made the recommendation for a number of reasons. the question is, was it scientifically based? and as dr. walensky mentioned at the press conference today, we were trying to, or the cdc, was trying to strike a balance between addressing the fact that we were having a major, almost overwhelming surge of new cases that will likely get worse in the next two weeks.