harder because it is nuanced. it is a spectrum. it is not being exposed, you could have a higher risk exposure but you still need to be informed and especially when it comes to make a decision about staying home with isolation, it is not so much oh, i ve hit five days i m suddenly not able to spread it. so i think when we make this guidance, the effort was to try to make it easy on public and for contact tracing and we ve not given people the tools to make critical decisions. so understanding that exposure and vaccination status isn t just binary, there is much more information that is needed to make that decision. it is really important. and right now more than ever, as people feel over covid, we need to make sure that they understand there is a spectrum to this. there is little nuance tails they should understand so they could make informed decisions. and jessica, a lot of communication and you touched on this is based on guidelines belt from data from the delta surge. how do peopl
with the white house for unvaccinated people, when we now have data analyzed by the washington post that shows the vaccination made of 42% of deaths in january and february, journal more concerts, compared to making up to 23% of the dead in september, during the peak of the delta surge. the deaths were concentrated among some of the vulnerable, the elderly, those without boosters, and we should point out, getting vaccinated reduces your chances of dying. in overall, absolute terms, a lot of people who died were vaccinated, and i feel like the white house and administration didn t make that clear at all. yeah, maybe. this gets exactly back to the point of when you have a lot of transmission and a lot of cases, even a small percent [inaudible] did we lose doctor quran there? we ll wait to get him back. put the second question to you. what did you make the pandemic
inflation in the 70s either but it didn t work out well. that s what i mean. we re just talking about the truth of it. we re trying to get to the truth here, john heilemann. i think with the biden administration, they d say in response, and steve would agree with this, at the time, it seemed to be overkill, given the persistence of covid thereafter, given the delta surge, the omicron surge, now maybe another 100 million cases coming this fall, you know, which doesn t take away steve s point about that you can contribute some some percentage of inflation to the bill, but there is another argument. looked like overkill in april of 2021. as we sit heading into the fall of 2022 with successive waves of covid still hitting the country, you could make a policy argument that, you know, it was necessary. covid hadn t come to an end in the spring of last year. it s still rolling out and hitting country now. you can make the argument. as a policy matter, it is not a very strong argume
building a better bay area, moving forward, this is abc 7 news. you have seen a surge and cases we have not seen it impacted mortality. what we have seen now is what we have seen in mid february and it is more than what we are seeing at the height of the delta surge. covid cases on the rise again and end of the school year activities are not helping. dramatic new bodycam video of a police shooting in san jose. think you for joining us. let s begin today with the coronavirus. according to the cdc the ba.2 subvariant is now estimated to account for nearly 43% of all covid-19 cases in the u.s.. cases are rising as you hear cases increased by 14 present and new hospitalizations are up 11% across the u.s. the u.s. is closing in on one billion deaths, covid night california s on the brink of
parts of the country are starting to tick up too the cdc now urging residents in 56 high-risk counties to mask up. two-thirds of those areas are in the state of new york. i m not here to stand here and say we re looking at shutdowns. i ve said i m going to protect the health of new yorkers. reporter: nationally caseloads are only a fraction of what we saw in the winter though new york city s recent numbers rival last year s delta surge. still the upward trend isn t stopping the season s most watched formal events, from fashion s biggest night at the met to the weekend s white house correspondents dinner notably absent was america s top doc, who backpedaled earlier comments when he said we re out of the pandemic phase that does not mean that the pandemic is over by no means is it over. reporter: a possible sign of the future, south africa, where omicron first popped up. research there, which has not yet been peer reviewed, shows new subvariants are dodging antibodies gained fro