With just four days to go until The Opening ceremonies, the number of covid cases linked to the 2020 Olympic Games has risen to 58. This includes american tennis hopeful Corey Coco Gauff who announced On Sunday she was pulling out of the competition. Coronavirus cases are rising in japan which raised fears the start on friday could turn into a Super Global Spreader event. Blake essex joins us from tokyo. The olympic organizers must be scrambling to deal with the fallout. Whats the latest . Reporter yeah, kim. Look, i mean, the Health And Safety concern remains a big issue here in japan, and a main reason why these games continue to be so deeply unpopular. But just last week international olympic Committee President Bach said the risk of spreading because of The Olympics is zero. A Growing Number of cases are testing olympic organizers promise theyll be able to deliver a safe and secure owe lim Olympic Games. Take a listen. Olympics is a safe place to stay. We cannot say there will be n
Days. It is not as high as it was in february, but we are clearly seeing a rise. What we are seeing is a rise in hospitalizations, right. We see this is the change in new coronavirus. Hospitalizations, sevenday average. We had been dropping most of the year, now all of a sudden were seeing the rise. That is far more worse. We talk about cases, and thats one thing. Thats symptomatic, asymptomatic. This is people getting sick. More people are get bting sick,o sick they have to be hospitalized. The rate is increasing pretty quickly at this point. What do we know about the age of people getting sick, harry . Right. Look, these are the cases. This is a percentage of all coronavirus cases. This is the big take away, right. Those under 50, they did makeup the clear majority of New Cases back in December Of 2020 at 65 . But now we see them rising to 72 in june of 2021. The idea that its basically this old Person Disease really does not bear itself out in the numbers. Its, in fact, the vast maj
I couldnt be any more proud to be a padre, to be to be with the men in there. And obviously, theyre going out, theyre thinking of their loved ones. And theyre getting their families and then its just human nature, theyre seeing fans and seeing people in panic. They just they did the right thing. Scary moment. Suzanne malveaux has more. Ladies and gentlemen, your attention, please. The action is outside of the stadium. At this time, we ask that you remain in the stadium. Reporter gunfire sending Fa Fans and players scrambling. A Fan One of three wounded in the shooting according to d. C. Metro police. Cnn journalists inside the stadium reported Hearing Multiple loud bangs. It was the middle of the sixth inning, and we there were some loud bangs. I was sitting off of the third baseline. There were some loud bangs behind us. A bunch of us right in a row. But they were supposed to do fireworks after the game tonight. So i think most people didnt think anything of it. But then, suddenly, a
Possible risk of contracting guillain barre. They received about 10 0 preliminary reports. Thats after 12. 8 million doses of the vaccine being given out. Again, thats presumably about 12. 8 million people since its a one shot vaccine. Its been largely reported about two vehicles after vaccination. Its being reported mostly in men. Many of them over age 50. As you can see, the cdc saying a small possible risk. Now the Washington Post is reporting that the fda is preparing to do some kind of warning about Guillainbarre Johnson and johnson johnson. Its important to add this risk has not been found with moderna or pfizer. Those are mrna vaccines. They work in a completely different way than johnson johnson. The vast majority of the vaccinations that people in the u. S. Have gotten and continue to get is not johnson johnson. Its pfizer and moderna. That applies to a relatively small number of people. Thank you for the Breaking News. Lets stay with it now with the director of the division o
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