Happening now a shifting response to the amachrom

explosion here in the United States.

U.S. health officials are doubling down on the message that most Americans will be exposed this as the pandemic economy takes

another hit with inflation soaring to a four decade high. Also tonight a huge

development of the January 6th investigation.

The select committee is now asking the top House Republican Kevin McCarthy to cooperate voluntarily and turnover information.

And we're awaiting a possible decision by the Australian government

on the fate of the tennis star Novak Jokovich.

Will he be able to stay in the country

after he admitted violating COVID protocols?

There's growing pressure for an answer as player match-ups support the Australian Open

will be drawn just a few hours from now.

We want to welcome our viewers here in the United States and around the world.

I'm Wolf Blitzer, you're in the situation room. We begin with the changing tone among US health officials and COVID experts.

They're sounding more and more resigned to the idea that almost every American

will be exposed to or infected with the amachron variant.

CNN Nick Watt has our report.

Amacron, with its extraordinary, unprecedented degree of efficiency of transmissibility,

will ultimately find just about everybody.

It's finding and infecting nearly three quarters of a million Americans on average every day.

We are preparing an update to the information on our mask website to best reflect the options that are available to people and the different levels of protection different masks provide.

The update will stress that N95s are much better than cloth.

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