if you go by the seven-day averages here, new cases dropped 58.5%. hospitalizations dropped 44%. head of the world health organization says the number of new cases has been declining now for the fifth consecutive week. so far this year the number of weekly reported cases has fallen by almost half. from more than 5 million cases in the week of january 4 to 2.6 million cases in the week starting february 8. just five weeks. this shows that simple public health measures work. even in the presence of variants. what matters now is how we respond to this trend. the fire is not out, but we have reduced its size. let s talk about this now with dr. wilbur chen, an in infe infectious disease expert and serves on the cdc s advisory committee on immunization practices. okay. let s talk about the good news here. i mean, the numbers are still high, but we are seeing this big drop. that is certainly welcome news. tell us what you re seeing. tell us why we re seeing this drop. tell us ho
thousands of new hospital beds. that s what was going on. that s why the cdc and that s why cms made those decisions, and at the time cdc, cms, they were white house task forces. the they were daily briefings. everyone was focused on this issue. this was not a little issue. the all the best minds were looking at it. fact. of the 613 nursing homes, we have 613 nursing homes in the state, 365 received a person from a hospital. of the 365 that received a person from this march 25th guidance which was then superceded in may, 98% of those 365 already had covid in their facility. covid did not get into the nursing homes by people coming from hospitals. the covid got into the nursing homes by staff walking into the nursing home when we didn t even know we had covid. staff walking into a nursing home even though they were asymptomatic because the national experts all told us you could only spread covid if you had symptoms and they were wrong. covid may have been brought into a nursin
america reports as we kick off another news filled week. threatening to strip governor andrew cuomo at his of emergency powers, downplayed the number of nursing on residents who died from covid. sandra: slamming their response as shameful. there was obstruction of justice, and this is not about politics. this is about people s lives, and what was so shameful, they did and apologize for the number of deaths. in an apologist for the policy, but apologize for the political fallout. john: republican congresswoman of south carolina is standing by to talk with us. sandra: we look forward to that. we began our coverage with william la jeunesse. the california governor there, and bryan llenas is live in brooklyn for us. has governor andrew cuomo reacted to this latest bombshell yet? see cassandra, good afternoon. now, he has not responded. he has not held a public press conference since last wednesday, and the reality is this is all happening, there is a growing number of d
breakneck pace on track. on the covid front cases in the united states are plummeting, the fewest since november, but experts are divided as to why. and the bad news, experts are warning the next 14 weeks could till be the worst we have seen yet. not as contradictory as it sounds, we will explain. meantime the biden administration under fire for what critics and a lot of parents are calling a confusing plan to reopen schools. for a lot of parents that right there is priority number one. we re going to get to that as well. republicans meanwhile not on board with the president s covid plan and not entirely certain of who they are any more facing a post impeachment fight for the future of the grand old party. one g.o.p. senator who voted to convict trump has beenentured by his own state party. after torching donald trump on the floor and all but inviting prosecutors to charge him mitch mcconnell and republicans are facing rumbles from mar-a-lago. a message is being sent that don