clarifying another key detail of what happened that day. a teacher say he did close the door that the killer used to get inside the school but the door was not locked. this contradicts an earlier claim by police that the teacher had left the door propped open. the town of uvalde is also continuing to honor more of the victims today. funerals today for a teacher who died protecting her students and also one of the young students killed. let s begin with cnn s shimon prokupecz who is live in uvalde. shimon, you spoke with the police chief. what more did he say about all of these questions that are swirling? reporter: well, he s not answering the key questions as to why he made the decision not to send officers in to take the gunmen down, right, the dps, head of the dps, the department of public safety who was running this investigation told us on friday that he was the on-site commander, that he was the one making decisions, and he was the one who ultimately decided that the
so, there are a lot of theories out there. i think it s enough to learn more. first, it s not completely clear to what extent anti-virals are responsible for this. when pfizer s were published by the fda, they showed there was some rebound boat in people who had never been treated as well as in those who had been treated. but that was during the delta era. and we suspect that omicron may be behaving a little bit differently. so some thought is that maybe because packslovid works so well the immune system doesn t get a good look at omicron and doesn t have the same opportunity to develop immunity that it might if it were packslovid. sorry. this is information and so much amazing start. thank you, doctor, i appreciate it.
one who ultimately decided that the police officers should not barge into that room waiting almost over an hour until they finally went in that room. we asked them those questions. when i saw him this morning coming here to his office, i asked him why he made that decision. he wouldn t answer those questions. take a listen to what he said. just to let you all know i know you do. just to know, we re not going to do anything, we have people grieving in our community. we re going to be respectful. that you were responsible for the decision to go to that room. how do you explain yourself? you have an opportunity to explain yourself to the parents. and just so you know, we re going to do that eventually, whenever this is done, the families quit grieving, we ll do
in short supply right now. when you said the idea of underlying health conditions, my mind went to the fact that although covid-19 obviously has exacerbated so many things, it s not as if cancer went away or breast exams didn t need to be performed any longer or routine screenings, in addition to the appendicitises, heart attacks, arm breaks, these are all still happening. for every bed taken, that means attention and resources can t go to those people in a timely fashion. correct. not only are we pulling away those resources from those patients but we re putting them at greater risk. my greatest fear and the thing i ve been trying to do the most in recent shifts is to control exposure for those that are in the hospital without covid, to try to prevent them from getting it. patients that have cancer, on chemotherapy, who come in because they re having side effects, and have done everything they can including getting vaccinated multiple doses, but whose immune system doesn t respond
doses, but whose immune system doesn t respond in the same way. and for whom an infection would be a lot more severe. and so that s what i m trying to do, go around, make sure they have masks on, try to separate people. with so many people coming in at the same time, with covid, for covid, for non-covid reasons, whatever it is, it makes it a lot harder to do that job to keep that covid parenttient safd the non-covid patient safe as well. thank you for giving us the context of the whole ecosystem and not just one patient. thank you, lauren. now to a controversy surrounding the world s number one men s tennis player. you know him. novak djokovic. he s in australia, hoping to defend his title at the australian open. but the threat of deportation is still looming after admissions that he made some mistakes on his immigration forms and didn t isolate after recently testing positive for covid. we ll take it all on with bob