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Vaccination. and we know vaccination helps address omicron. >> reporter: still undecided on whether crowds will fill times square for new years eve. as covid infections have upended the worlds of sports and entertainment forcing "saturday night live" to cancel its live audience. the nba, nhl also postponing games and schools like harvard university moving graduate and professional schools to online classes for the first three weeks of january. health workers and government officials increasingly...

Into the winter. >> reporter: america, bracing for a tough winter thats beginning to look a lot like last winter. already in the midst of a delta surge, the new omicron variant accounting for just under 3% of cases. but spreading fast. >> this virus is extraordinary. it has a doubling time of anywhere from 2 to 3 days. its going to take over. >> reporter: the u.s. now averaging about 1200 deaths a day and 130 new covid-19 cases a day. that figure up 10% from a week ago. hospitalizations nationwi...

Weekend shows that if left unchecked, infections in denmark could be ten times that number, followed by record high hospital admissions by christmas and well beyond in the new year. charles is the epidemiologist in charge of managing the risk of new variants in denmark, a country blessed with more than three quarters of its population double vaccinated. but dans are quickly discovering that two shots are no match for the new more infectious variant. and the booster shot program simply cannot kee...

Whether they cannot cope with any more restrictions, only 10% say that they cannot do that. so there is no real sign of fatigue yet. >> it sound like danes are rule followers. >> to a large extent, we are rule followers, but it is not sort of blind obedience. it is because we feel that we are being explained why we need to do it and what we need to do. >> reporter: his research found americans followed covid rules to a lesser extent than danes, but omicron wont hit the u.s. any less hard. >> i t...

Charge of the trump investigations. the incoming manhattan da talks exclusively to cnn. welcome to "the lead." im pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start with the health lead and covid cases spiking across the u.s. were now averaging 130,000 every day. thats up 10% in a week. hospitalizations are also up about 35% in the last month. with about 1 in 5 of all icu beds in this country taken up by a covid patient. health officials warn the highly contagious omicron variant will soon be responsib...

Based on everything ive seen, i think the half dose is going to be more than good enough for most people. so i think that that probably is whats going to end up getting authorized. well see what the fda says. a bigger dos probably not a problem, but my sense is that half dose is probably going to be enough for most people. >> speaking of moderna, it also says its working on an omicron specific booster which could take months to complete. of course you wonder, by that time its approved, wouldnt w...

Adagio Therapeutics Summarizes ADG20 Neutralizing Activity Against SARS-CoV-2 Variants and Outlines Initiatives to Address Omicron GlobeNewswire January 12, 2022 Recent Publications by Several Independent Laboratories Show ADG20 Has Neutralizing Activity with Potency Comparable to Other Antibodies that Retain Activity Against Omicron WALTHAM, Mass., Jan. 12, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Adagio Therapeutics, Inc.,...

That soon every case coming in through our border into or managed isolation facilities will be the omicron variant. our immediate job right now must be to slow it down and to delay it from ept ring the new zealand community for as long as we possibly can. >> reporter: but, rosemary, on the bright side, new zealand has become one of the most vaccinated countries in the world with about 90% of its eligible population fully vaccinated. >> that is pretty impressive, isnt it? and across asia, cases a...

How more mild or less severe it is. we know theres been deaths. theres been deaths in all those countries, including the u.s. now, from omicron and many hospitalizations. so its really the unsettled question right now. we know why it would be less severe, because we have this immunity wall, the vaccinations and the boosters and the prior covid. and theres also some intrinsic evidence that are hints about this virus that would make it less severe. but still there are an untold number of people wh...

>> dr. eric topol, thank you so much for talking with us. we appreciate it and appreciate you. >> thank you. happy holidays. >> same to you. thank you. well, the british government is under pressure to get the omicron surge under control, and prime minister boris johnson says new restrictions may be necessary. the uk reported more than 91,000 new infections on monday, its second highest daily total in this pandemic. of those cases, more than 8,000 are confirmed to be the omicron variant. meanw...