padlocks. our community is hopeful because we might be on this list of neighborhoods being granted some freedom. it s likely if they do grant us that, it s going to be only to the extent of walking out that door, walk around our compound, basically, leave our apartments, but that s it for now. the front gate of our community that takes us out to the actual street remains blocked, as it s been that way, don, for nearly four weeks now. my goodness. we all know how hard it is to contain covid, but what does this say about china s zero covid policy? reporter: i think it says that it s highly unlikely beijing is going to change course on its determination to try and totally eliminate covid. in fact, articles or any sort of posts suggesting china should try to live with the virus are due to be censored on line here. the zero covid policy, this is a directive coming straight from the top. xi jinping wants it stamped.
Hospitals, understaffed and reeling from one long shift that seems to have lasted years, began to fill again. As they reached out for help to fill holes in staffing, the
yet. hospital zaizations in that age group are up 48% from a little more than a month ago. with the public exasperated by what seems like an endless pattern of covid surges, americans want to know when will it end. at a news conference on friday, president joe biden was asked if this was going to be the new normal. no, i don t think covid is here to stay. having covid in the environment here and in the world is probably here to stay, but covid as we re dealing with it now is not here to stay. the new normal doesn t have to be we have so many more tools we re developing. now certain some health experts say any kind of normal will likely mean living with covid in much the same way we live with the flu. a former adviser to president biden spoke with anderson cooper on friday and explained what it would take to get past the exorbitant case numbers that we re seeing now. unfortunately, if you
decision, a lot of people left their jobs as result, been forced out of jobs as a result. it made staffing shortages and hasn t stopped the disease from spreading. you can see from the vast number of cases in heavily vaccinated places. vaccine is great protecting against severe disease, not good against stopping disease from spreading. kevin: let me share for the folks at home. this is just the blue cities facing covid surges, daily average cases. look at new york city. 39,000 plus. great city of los angeles, more than 19,000 and chicago more broadly cooke county topping 10,000, talking about daily average cases. it is incredible, we want this to be over, but i continuing is fair to say, doctor, you can have mandates until the cows come home and may not stop the spread of this particular virus
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