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thanks to sam for that report what do you do if you want to protect your family and kids let me bring in dr. natalie azar it s good to see you on a holiday week thank you. we talk about the triple-demic a lot, covid, flu, rsv is the biggest concern to you now the covid piece of it? perhaps concerning, yes, not really surprising, right, and i think it s encouraging that we ve seen the flu numbers dropping but i think we re confident that we can expect a bump in cases of probably all three respiratory illnesses after the holidays because of people gathering and i think a cautionary note, one to highlight what sam already said about the fact that if you ve had flu once, that doesn t mean that you re, you know, out of the possibly of getting it again there are, you know, four strains that are covered in the flu shot and another thing i ....
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Intelligence, the failure to act upon it, we set out in our conclusion left that capitol unprepared for the violence that ensued. reporter: the committee s criminal referrals carry no legal weight. the decision to prosecute the former president will be up to the new special counsel jack smith. ryan, thank you. the new flu numbers are just out from the cdc, and while flu activity remains high across the country, there are some encouraging signs tonight, but as sam brock reports, health officials worry the holidays could mean another spike. the country s bitter battle with the flu, the worst in at least a decade is showing signs of improvement. today s cdc report citing seasonal influenza activity remains high but is declining in most areas. still, the gains are fragile, especially with the holidays upon us. are we out of the woods yet or do you think america should still be pretty caution at this point? you know, we re not out of the woods. ....
Much. clearly it s been an early and severe flu season, 15 million illnesses. and last week,hhs told states they could release and use their own stockpiles now the administration is saying yes, if they need it they can have access to the national stockpile. they re saying it s not a shortage but the pharmacists association is saying there is a shortage of the generic version of tamiflu tamiflu. hopefully we ll see flu numbers coming down as we talked about yesterday. as we progress as the world and human beings, life expectancy you would think would go up with the advances in medicine. but this new cdc reports that life expectancy is the lowest ....
Trouble getting the generic version of it. so the biden administration is saying to states, if you need it, let us know, because we have a stockpile with tamiflu and other drugs that was tapped into for covid and pox, and so states have their own stockpiles and if you re running low, let us know and we could give you some of what we have. let s take a look at flu numbers because they are still so high. this is a map of the united states. there are only five states here where flt high or very high levels. all of the red and orange and purple, that is high or very high. so only five states are not high or very high levels of flu. and if you look at how the flu has been accumulating since the beginning of the season, there has been at least 150,000 hospitalizations, and at least 9300 deaths. now, the problem with this flu season is not just that it is bad, but that it came so early. and so there may have been some ....