a mess. and of course that s to be expected almost in the covid times. nobody really knew what the roadmap was in order to handle the rise in covid infections, to try and keep it out of our borders, our borders were shut down. effectively australia was closed for two years, and this was supposed to be the coming out parade. unfortunately the omicron variant is now ripping through australia in every state and territory. but what we ve seen in the past two years is real agitation between the federal government and the state government of victoria. they don t agree with each other ideologically, politically, and that has given rise to a lot of angst along the way. and we saw that in the first visa cancellation where it was decided that up until that point, what australia had been enforcing were the domain of the states.
he s going to be on, the law one or the hard court. patrick, always good to see you my friend. patrick snell there. the u.s. public health emergency declaration has been renewed again. it allows for emergency use authorizations of vaccines, access to certain funds, and deployment of the military. and the cdc updated its mask guidance on friday, urging americans to wear the most protective mask available, like the n95 and kn95. it comes as the biden administration is under more criticism for its omicron response. cnn s nick watt with that. reporter: this administration placed all of their eggs in vaccination. reporter: there are doctors who agree with those democratic senators, that the biden administration has been too reactive to omicron, not proactive. we saw south africa getting ravaged with this virus. we knew it was highly
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