we re expecting things to pick up once the temperatures crank up a little more. we ve seen some activity and we ll show you. the video that we shot yesterday in mission, texas, typical for what we see here. drive down the road and you might see immigrants with border patrol. covid is impacting the border patrol here. they have in this sector more than 200 employees quarantined and 188 confirmed to have covid-19. rv rgv isn t the only sector. there were 26 immigrants hitching a ride on a train, including children. and we ll see that that they ll get on the train in order to get deeper into the country and further in the united states after they ve crossed over illegally and take a look at photos out of border patrol s
don t think covid is scary. i think having no food to eat is my biggest threat. but what s really disturbing are reports of critically ill people being turned away from hospitals. sky news is reporting that one woman put in a call for help online after her father suffered a heart attack but was initially refused care as he came from a medium-risk location despite having a negative pcr result. but this next account shared by the a.p. is perhaps the most distressing. it s about a pregnant company who felt pains on her stomach on new year s day but was not allowed into a hospital. she waited outside the hospital on a pink plastic stool until she started bleeding. she was finally let into the hospital after medical workers saw the blood about but the fetus was already dead. why would we prop up a regime that operates this way? that treats its own citizens this way? why would we give them cover and
all right. thanks. let s bring in professor ben cowling. chair of epidemiology at the university of hong kong, but he joins us now from england. good to see you, professor. i want to ask you first about a big story here in right now where you have a number of top government officials who are issuing public apologies. this after they attended a big birthday party in a spanish tapas restaurant monday days after the health secretary here told the public to avoid large crowds because the city was on the verge of a fifth wave of covid infections. now you have all these lawmakers and top government officials going into mandatory government quarantine, and at least one local transmission case from that party, possibly a second, we re getting mixed reports about a false positive there. the question being, is it possible now that we have a
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novak djokovic ahead of the australian open. and all is quiet in kazakhstan after days of deadly clashes. what the country s president is saying now after issuing shoot-to-kill orders to stop protesters. all right. we begin in the u.s. where covid cases are soaring to record levels driven by the super contagious omicron variant. infections are averaging more than 660,000 per day. this map gives you a sense of the dramatic spread across the nation with cases surging in nearly every state. child hospitalizations are at an all-time high, as well. some of the largest increases are in children under 5 who are not authorized to be vaccinated