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Thats particularly important in the health care industry. you also have the uk government today securing two contracts. thats going to bring about 4 million -- more than 4 million doses of antivirals that will be here in the country who are covid positive from winding up in icu, winding up seriously sick. the key thing is the booster program. its like a wartime effort here. you have troops involved, thousands of vaccinators fanned out across the country. if you see a line outside anywhere, its n...

And a lot of it has to do with the unvaccinated. unfortunately, with omicron, being unboosted almost is equivalent to being unvaccinated. >> with holiday gatherings approaching, many americans are waiting in long lines at test sites around the country. >> we are going to get run test even got in line. >> federal health officials say omicron is now responsible for three quarters of new covid cases nationwide one yards of 90% in the southeast, south central. pacific northwest, industrial midwest a...

Museums and put restrictions on night life to try to get the virus under control. >> reporter: everyone here is asking will there be a lockdown before christmas. over the weekend, british scientific advisers warning tougher measures are needed to slow a potential wave of hospitalizations due to the omicron variant. the london mayor declaring a major incident in the city over the weekend and saying further restrictions were inevitable. and the deputy prime minister saying theres no hard and fast ...

>> reporter: i think, rosemary, everyone is waking up this morning wondering will there or will there not be restrictions on christmas? over the weekend of course the mayor of london, mayor sadiq khan, putting this city in a state of emergency due to the rise of omicron cases. several days in a row records were broken. records that had not been broken since the start of this pandemic in terms of case numbers. 90,000 cases on a single day on friday. high concern over the rate of hospitalizations ...

Year. meg. >> oliver: marcie gonzalez in los angeles, thank you. the number of cases involving omicron is doubling every one and a half to three days. csns imtiaz tyab is tracking the virus, imtiaz. >> meg good evening, in the u.k. it is now the dominant variant. tonight, mayor sadiq khan, part of efforts to try to probate the health care system here. meanwhile makes across europe are implementing restrictions including tightening borders, while the netherlands has just announced its going throu...

0 captioning sponsored by cbs >> tonight, holiday surge. travel takes off. more than 100 million americans on the move, as covid cases skyrocket from coast to coast. the latest variants spreading fast. >> its unimaginable to have to go through another winter. you have so much death and misery. >> but confidence in vaccines and pandemic fatigue appear to have people accepting the risk. >> im mar cyst gonzalez. >> new york city sees record infections, broadway shutters shows, broad way premiers ca...

A single 24-hour period since the start of the pandemic, and health officials are warning that the r number for omicron is between three and five. thats why you seeing the phenomenal spread across the uk. health officials are expanding the countrys booster program to make sure everyone eligible gets an invitation for the third shot by the end of the year, but many people taking precautions into their open end. everyone will be considering their christmas plans and even the queen cancelling a pre...

A row. hes reluctant and hes getting a lot of resistance from his tory party. theyre putting all their eggs in this booster basket, basically relying on the booster program to do all the work to staunch the spread of the omicron variant. >> the science says the booster is what stops you from getting really sick from this. dr. redlener, colorados governor has said, if youre not vaccinated, if youre not boosted and you get very sick, it is your own fault, that they cant keep going around making ru...

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Protected against omicron, the booster is critical. it gives you a much better chance of shrugging off this virus if it floats past. so if there is one message i hope everybody listening to this would here, if you havent yet gotten that booster and you are eligible, most adults are, now is the time. do not wait. if you want to be protected for when this omicron surge hits us, which is likely to be by the end of this month or certainly in january, the booster is your best way for yourself and you...