he s doing well. we hope he is doing well. hope everybody that has covid out there today is doing well. a lot of people have covid. symptoms seem to be very mild. was going to get together yesterday afternoon with a friend, and his 14-year-old daughter got it. it s just still going around. it is. it s not again, we have vaccines, those boosted, it seems to be very mild. from everything i ve heard. it is. but then there are other people who are laid up for a week and ten days, like it was two years ago. so it is not to be messed with. yeah. that s the news on the covid front. anthony fauci has covid. in other pandemic news, they renamed monkeypox. they said the name was racist. i don t get that. joining us now, morning joe
tomorrow, the fda commissioner will be testifying on capitol hill to talk about the fda s budget and also oversight of infant formula and will certainly face but tonight, the president announce thing major step in invoking the defense production act. thank you very much. we re also following some troubling new pandemic news. the cdc now reporting that almost 1/3 of americans actually now live in areas seeing medium to high levels of covid in their communities. and joining us now, the white house coronavirus response coordinator, dr. ja. thank you so much for joining us. how concerned should most americans be right now about this recent rise in covid cases here in the united states? yes, good evening, wolf. thanks for having me here. we are seeing a lot more infections out there, right? infection numbers are almost up to 100,000 a day. that s a good three, fourfold
Covid-19 pandemic: According to a modeling study, it said the Omicron variant of coronavirus may wane, but there could be another outbreak of the Delta variant or a new strain of Covid this summer
we re following breaking pandemic news right now. new mask guidance just released from the centers for disease control and prevention, as nearly 800,000 cases on average of the omicron variant. let s go to dr. leana wen. what do you make of the guidance from the cdc encouraging americans to upgrade their masks for better protection to the n-95 or kn-95? i strongly agree, but i wish it had come out sooner. we have known for a year that covid is airborne, and mask quality matters. at least wear a surgical mask with a cloth mask on top of that. just a single layer of cloth
leave as soon as possible. this while russian troops hold new military drills in belaruse. a top russian military official speaks out on the escalating tensions. i ll talk to mikie sherrill about it. and we have new evidence on the supreme court short list. there are now three top contenders according to our sources. also our new reporting on the president s outreach to key republicans in the senate. and we have breaking pandemic news. this afternoon pfizer is postponing the request to the fda to expand its covid-19 vaccine to children under 5. we ll tell you why and speak to our medical experts about the impact and the setback for parents who are hoping to vaccinate their younger children. good afternoon on this busy newsday in washington. i m garret haake in for hallie jackson. i m joined by our nbc news team here and aren t world covering these fast moving developmentes in the ukraine crisis. we have josh letterman, courtney