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As we head for a new year to begin, health officials on a national, state, and local level are all holding their breaths, wondering what impact holiday gatherings will have on COVID-19 case numbers and if hospitals will see a dangerous influx of new cases.

Lost as weve covered breakthrough cases there is still a very, very sizable difference in risk and exposure in just transmission. it is particularly true of serious illness. covid specifically the omicron variant is ripping through the northeast right now. look at those charts. like it did when it first arrived in the kourn. we dont have apples to apples comparisons because we didnt have the testing infrastructure back then.chd these are charts of cases by state. the red line being the state num...

Covid safety measures, could reduce the spread of among kids. others are not convinced. >> what we will see is once children go back to school, within a week or two of schools opening is when we will see highest numbers. >> reporter: amid the winter weather, the pandemic is roaring across the country. with over a quarter million new cases diagnosed daily. >> its a game changer in terms of its high transmistransmissio. >> reporter: hospitalizations are half of what they were last winter. among va...

Change will only increase the spread of the virus. cnns tom foreman starts us off with a closer look at what all this might mean for you and your family as we head into a new year. >> reporter: amid the winter weather, the pandemic is roaring across the country with an average of more than 200,000 new cases diagnosed daily. >> this omicron variant is such a game changer in terms of its high, high transmissibility. its like this big virus blizzard. >> reporter: hospitalizations are only about hal...

Massachusetts health officials on Tuesday reported more than 20,000 new breakthrough COVID cases over the past week and 70 more deaths.

This entire administration, that something that we are going to continue to see. they feel that this requirement, this mandate, is sound, they feel confident in that, whether that is true, we will see but they feel like it is plan a and they are sticking to it. >> paul, lets talk about the legality of this in the fight that is going to ensue. and also another part of this, which is that with omicron, i heard it over the holiday break, a lot of people have heard it from folks that are not vaccina...

0 a situation where republicans can control but dont keep it on the impeachment strategy. >> think you both for joining us on the last word, that is tonights last word, the 11th hour starts right now. good evening once again, day 3 42 of the biden administration, tonight, as the "variant drives a winter covid surgeon every quarter of this nation and frustration levels growing, right along with the number of cases, the cdc is out with brand-new guidance for anyone infected by the virus, no short...

Here’s what you need to know about the coronavirus pandemic across Illinois today.

The number of coronavirus cases being reported in Massachusetts has been rocketing up every day, and it's heading toward a major milestone: 1 million confirmed...

>> its generalized chaos, but united and delta have been hit pretty hard. i mean, just about every -- remember, these are breakthrough cases. so people are testing positive. it doesnt mean that they are necessarily showing the symptoms, but this is all designed to stop the spread and so with a ten-day quarantine, you test positive. then you maybe get a second test. you test positive. you go into a ten-day quarantine. as we know, if you look through the last two years, what happened with the airl...