It's April 25th. You're listening to the President's Daily Brief. I'm your host and

former CIA officer Brian Dean Wright. Your morning intel starts now. Before we start

a quick reminder to those new to the show, the brief you're about to hear is in the

same spirit the actual President's Daily Brief, which is a top secret summary of the most

critical events of the past 24 hours, all delivered to the President each morning by

the nation's bymasters. And so ladies and gentlemen, I am your spy. And this is your

brief. Here's what we're going to be talking about today.

First up, COVID and kids. A new headline says you should be worried about children getting

sick with the virus. But a closer look at the data tells a very different story. I'll

explain your second brief inflation. It's hurting all of us terribly. But if you're looking

for a good news story on this front and maybe even a new job, you'll want to listen

to this brief. And as always, I'm keeping an eye out for developing stories, put these

two on your radar. There is a new COVID outbreak in Beijing this morning. It adds to a much

bigger one in Shanghai. I'll give you the latest. Finally, did you end up on a no fly

list because you were unable or unwilling to wear a mask on a plane during the pandemic?

I've got an important update for you. So all up next on the President's Daily Brief.

Your first piece of intel this morning, over the weekend, you probably saw headlines regarding

a fresh study. This went out from the CDC on COVID and kids. Most of the headlines that

you probably saw were panicked, saying that the Omicron variant had hospitalized more kids

from COVID than any other. One doctor was frantically quoted as saying COVID-19 is still an

issue for kids. The doctor's name is Emily Volk, who's president of the College of American

Pathologists. She went on to say that quote, the assumptions that we had early on that

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