that we know that the case is here? i ll be honest with you, no. the fact of the matter is that the most dominant concern that we have of covid-19 right now is still delta. think about it. we have one identified case of omicron and we have thousands of identified cases of delta. and the way that anyone can prevent either omicron or delta is by doing the same things we ve been telling folks to do when it comes to covid-19 since the beginning of the pandemic and since we ve had vaccines, which is to get vaccinated if you haven t been. to get boosted. make sure you re wearing masks in crowded public indoor settings. and to make sure that you re doing things like washing your hands and making decisions about whether or not you may want to take up risks by engaging in certain social activities. from a public health perspective, there s a lot of reason that our public health institutions, our workforce, does need to ramp up. whether it s on surveillance or
patients and so the capacity to do that and do that at scale across the country is going to be really important. it is a great thing that most of the circumstantial evidence that we have about the severity of cases suggests that they have been generally less severe. that being said, of course, we ve got to wait for the science on this, and we ve got to understand that, you know, an n equals 1 situation doesn t really tell us about the overall risk of severe illness among individuals who may come down with omicron. but it is heartening to hear and certainly good for that one individual, and certainly the folks with whom he has come in contact. doctor, let me lean on your experience as a public health official of a major city, former health commissioner there in detroit. what we heard there was that they re not changing the health protocols in san francisco despite having identified the first case of omicron. you look here in the state of new york, the governor s already declared a sta
court, is the sense that we want to give the states this power from the conservative standpoint, and that goes against science. so then just forget about science and make up standards as we go along. and steve, to the question of precedent, justice sotomayor talked about or asked the question will the institution survive the stench that this creates in the public perception. this is all political. i think it s the right question from justice sotomayor, and one of the things that really came through in the argument today is, yes, there have been bad precedents throughout the course of history, that the justices have overruled. usually, though, in the favor of expanded individual rights. here we have a case where overruling precedent would be to take away rights that the court has recognized. we haven t seen that kind of decision where the country is so evenly divided, where there s so much reliance built into women assuming that they have the
once you hand this over to the prosecutor, doesn t want to negatively impact the case. again, that process is about to start. let s bring in now cnn s shimon prokupecz and cnn s national security analyst juliette kayyem. you listened to what we heard from the sheriff there. what stood out to you? what stood out to me is a student who has never seems to have been disciplined or complained about bullying, doesn t seem to have been anyone s focus, his father buys a gun over thanksgiving weekend. by monday, the kid has some incident that brings him to a principal or some guidance counselor. tuesday there s a second incident and now the kid s parents are in there and he has the gun on campus. that s how truncated this is at this stage. a five-day period over thanksgiving with no hints or clues. so the only variable is, he had access to a gun because it doesn t seem like this was a long-term thing.
between administration officials and vaccine makers, how a vaccine would be changed depending on the variant, but also things like cost assessments for a national vaccine effort, what that would look like. how it would play out. the logistics of it. that s been part of what s been happening. so when they talk about buying time, whether or not it stepped anything from coming to the united states, nobody thought that would be the case. what they wanted more than anything else, both in the near term and these long-term issues, was time to prepare for what they knew was inevitable. doctor, let s turn to you to asuede some fears here. we know health experts said this would happen. but there might be some people who are a bit anxious now that it has been discovered in california. how different is the public health picture now at 2:19 eastern than it was at 12:19 now