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With hospitals across Massachusetts becoming overcrowded with patients fighting COVID-19 infection and other health issues, health care and medical experts told...

Massachusetts health officials reported another 5,883 new confirmed COVID-19 cases -- the most in one day since January -- and 30 new deaths Thursday.

Needed to deal with omicron. thats one of the things they have been gauging. so the vaccine regimens that are currently available, they find to be effective. theyre also talking about boosters being a useful tool. so expect the president to advocate for more of that. the white house has been saying that while certainly they would like more people to get their first doses of that kind of part of the population that has not gotten vaccinated at all, theyre pleased that theres been a million booste...

Rico. the surge in new cases taking a major toll on everyday life. you may be seeing some of it where you are, here in new york city, some broadway shows just canceled, sporting events as well, college campuses as we pointed out, some of those schools now shifting back to online learning. >> yeah. at least four more colleges and universities including princeton and nyu taking protective measures moving the last days of their fall semesters online including final exams. cnn correspondent polo san...

Youre not harming a single person and they fire you for it, what do you think their thinking is here? >> the way i look at this with the covid vaccine you would have a rational argument in the vaccine did a good job of stopping the spread that would you mandate it at work, but youd still be wrong. i say! right now you dont have a rational argument. we all know that the vaccine doesnt do a good job at stopping the spread and weve had breakthrough cases at work and were going continue to have brea...

Now with what were seeing. polo? >> reporter: good morning to you. that so-called considerable acceleration in covid cases first detected here at nyu, school officials stressing no cause for alarm, but certainly a reason to be cautious and certainly to take action and that brings us to where we are today, the university officials are encouraging faculty members to take a remote approach when it comes to finals. also, not a lot of nonessential events on campus, being canceled or recommending they...

>> yeah. on its surface you may get that feeling at least that were taking a step back but its important to point out these are sporadic cancellations that weve seen. just a few select shows because of these breakthrough cases that have been report among some of the cast and crew at some of these popular showers, very popular shows. "hamilton," "aint too proud," "doubtfire" and the list goes on. they want to be able to substitute some of the employees and cast members so as a result they have ca...

Covid. and we have the omicron variant, we are reading a lot about it, learning a lot about it. but vaccines, boosters, there are still breakthrough cases. how come there is so little talk about monoclonal antibodies. anecdotally, vaccinated people come unvaccinated people, pre-existing conditions, comorbidities, compromised immune systems, i know a ton, every one that got the monoclonal antibodies infusion or shot early, all of them did find without exception. am i wrong on? >> i have had the s...

On the show is where we are with covid. and we have the omicron variant, we are reading a lot about it, learning a lot about it. but vaccines, boosters, there are still breakthrough cases. how come there is so little talk about monoclonal antibodies. anecdotally, vaccinated people unvaccinated people, pre-existing conditions, comorbidities, compromised immune systems, i know a ton, every one that got the monoclonal antibodies infusion or shot early, all of them did fine without exception. am i w...

Here's a local update on COVID-19 vaccine availability and an update on case numbers for Chenango, Delaware, and Otsego Counties