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In the last week, the State Department of Health reported 1194 new cases of coronavirus with 3 new COVID-19 related deaths st

Morning. well see you right back here. for now chris jansing picks up the coverage. >> hi there, im in for stephanie ruhle. it is wednesday, december 29th. we have a lot to get to. yet another record to tell you about as the u.s. is at an all-time high for new coronavirus infections. the seven-day case average is now at more than 262,000 daily u.s. cases as of tuesday. that breaks a nearly year-old record. and the overall numbers are equally concerning. the u.s. has now surpassed 53 million case...

Good to be with you again. im katy tur. as our second year of living with the pandemic draws to a close, theres a new worrisome variant causing a record number of new cases but theres the question of whether we should be using different metrics to determine how bad this is. the u.s. seven-day case average right now is at an all-time high with a daily caseload nearly twice that of the worst days of last winter. 300,000 a day and surely a whole lot more that have not been officially reported or co...

This morning to expand the availability of pfizers booster shot to include children. everyone over the age of 12 who received who doses of pfizers vaccine will be eligible for a third shot after five months instead of six. and a third dose of pfizers vaccine was also authorized for immune compromised children between the ages of 5 and 11. this comes as millions of students head back to school today in the midst of a tidal wave of covid infections and a confusing patchwork of mixed messages and c...

With this. please, god, there is not another significant wave. every time you think you have this thing figured out it humbles you. >> now as i say, numbers are coming down. new daily case average is just under half a million cases a day. so still very high. how do you balance that? coming off maybe 800,000 down to half a million, should we see some changes in restrictions now? >> look, victor, we cannot be living in a perpetual state of emergency. we have to recognize that were going to be livi...

There was and is a time and place for pandemic restrictions. but when they were put in, it was always with the understanding that they would be removed as soon as we can. and in this case, circumstances have changed. case counts are declining. also, the science has changed. we know that vaccines protect very well against omicron, which is the dominant variant. everyone 5 and older have widespread access to vaccines and we also know about one-way masking. the idea that even if other people around...

A week now. rallying against vaccine mandates. back here at home, the u.s. daily case average has plunged in recent weeks. driving discussions about easing restrictions, even as deaths still rise. phil lipof has the latest for us tonight. >> reporter: tonight, the sound of frustration. across the u.s. border in canada, protests spreading. thousands of long haul truckers angry about a federal mandate requiring them to be vaccinated to cross into the united states. >> we are not in china, we are n...

The agency is expecting to loosen crept mask guidance. they appear to be following the lead of many blue state governors who have already dropped mask mandates for schools and public places. some republican governors and large employers are doing the same. some are try to ban mask mandates. the virginia governor today will officially sign a ban to loosen mask rules. this comes as covid cases are dropping nationwide. todays case average is five times lower than the omicron peak. this is basically...

In the last week, the State Department of Health reported 1187 new cases of coronavirus with 6 new COVID-19 related deaths st

In the last week, the State Department of Health reported 827 new cases of coronavirus with 5 new COVID-19 related deaths sta