82-year-old. let the parent make the decisions. arlington, virginia will maintain our current a.p. arlington district, will maintain our current mask requirement for students, staff and visitors. masks required inside our facilities and school buses. if this is the same game plan that governor desantis uses in florida, then you will see a lawsuit to make then let parents have a decision. what i think is also interesting is jen psaki had to weigh in i guess on a sunday she was a little bored. she said hi there, arlington county parent here, i don t believe you are glenn youngkin but correct me if i am wrong to thank you for standing up to our teachers and administrators and the safety in the midst of this transmissible variant. she can do whatever she wants, steve. it s up to the governor saying it s up to the parent to make a decision. as the parent, put your kid in a space suit if you want. steve: right. glenn youngkin said the fact that the tweet came out from
variant here. everyone s lives are disrupted. people died in huge numbers. one of the chances that we will have to complete another cycle like that? it s not more immune evasive, which means that people who have just gotten the boosters, and we know the effectiveness now of the boosters versus the people who have not gotten vaccinated for example, but for people who just got omicron this month, the concern isn t that people who are gonna get infected again, the concern is that the people who have not been infected will be a more trans miscible variant and more infections. when we re talking about how we re coming off at the peak of the surge, we re all just reminding people that to change their behavior. the thought is that this long tale of the current omicron surge will be extended, if you have a more transmissible variant.
pandemic. cases of covid-19 are surging again across western europe. health experts say the u.s. should expect its own wave soon. cnn medical analyst dr. jonathan reiner explains why. throughout this pandemic we have followed the united kingdom and western europe by about three weeks. so what happens there typically happens here. what they re seeing is not sort of a resurgence of the original ba.1 omicron variant. what they re seeing is a second peek now of ba.2, the more transmissible variant. and that is now slowly starting to rise in the united states. and i expect that we will see pretty definitive evidence of an increase of cases in the united states probably by the end of this month. all right. let s bring in cnn contributor barbie nadeau in rome. so barbie, case numbers in many places there in europe are going up even though restrictions continue to fall.
week before. the uk s cases are only a fraction of what the country experienced during a previous covid peak of the and on sunday, germany will begin lifting most covid measures. more than 1700 in that country. the rise of cases abroad, and wondering if it s what we could see in the united states. what happens there typically happens here. reporter: dr. jonathan reiner interpret it is that the virus is coming back. what they re seeing is not a resurgence of the original ba.1 omicron variant. what they re see something a second peak of ba.2, the more transmissible variant, and that is now slowly starting to rise in the united states, and i
experts who are asking if statistics overseas may offer a preview of what s to come in the united states. throughout this pandemic, we have followed the united kingdom and western europe by about three weeks. dr. rheiner interprets upticks as a clear sign that the virus is coming back. what they re seeing is not a resurgence. they re seeing a second peak now of ba 2, the more transmissible variant. that is now slowly starting to rise in the united states and i expect that we will see pretty definitive evidence of an increase in cases in the united states by the end of this month. other experts caution the u.s. may not be as prepared for a potential ba 2 variant surge. in the u.k., 86% of eligible people are fully vaccinated with 68% boosted. those figures significantly lower in the u.s.