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When the president had a celebration at the white house and said the nation was on the cusp of declaring independence from the virus. obviously, as we start now 2022, were seeing case counts at an all-time high and this was at the top of the agenda for president biden. thats yet focus at this point on the part of the administration is two points. one is you mentioned t testing. the president laying out a plan to get 500 million take-home tests to americans. we will see a website launched in the ...

Fate in the australian open could come at any moment. hello and welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we begin in our health lead. a new warning from the top health experts. today dr. anthony fauci, and the acting fda commissioner say omicron is so efficient at spreading that almost everyone in the u.s. will at least be exposed to it. even if youre vaccinated and boosted. that does not mean, of course, that everyone is going to get infected or get sick. just exposed to it. the biden administr...

Probably in store for something thats probably a little more rounded than what we saw in south africa and maybe even what were seeing in london. i think the mantra has been that this is going to be a very sharp peak. its going to be up and come down right away. but what were seeing here in the united states are sort of rolling peaks. so, you know, as the governor said, things seem to be slowing down a little bit in new york, philadelphia, even the major metropolitan areas around d.c. but in the ...

So we have to change something, i think. >> ride it out. >> sandra: thanks, dan. >> john: good to talk to you, dan. how many people do you know, sandra, in the last couple of weeks have come down with covid? >> sandra: many, many. and thats why it all comes down to a local level. many. i mean -- the new york area, a lot of the suburbs of new york are struggling with case counts going up and hospitalization numbers are going up, not inundated like they were at one point. but its -- its spreading ...

Celebrate it. >> reporter: and as omicron surges across the country, many cities are readjusting their celebrations at the advice of public health officials, like dr. dave chokshi. where is new york right now in this surge? >> its been a difficult few weeks,s and, unfortunately, we have a tough few weeks ahead of us as well. >> reporter: atlanta and san francisco scrapped their new years eve plans. las vegas and chicago are still moving forward. >> since its outdoors and were spacing people out,...

The last few years during the pandemic and preceding the pandemic and now exacerbated by staff illness, by staff getting covid and having to isolate for ten days. so our hospitals are still under great pressure right now. im very encouraged that case counts are dropping now in this area unmistakably. >> that is a positive sign. ill preface this question by noting the obvious, and that is that i dont believe you are a legal analyst, but you are a health expert. from that perspective, id love to g...

>> deaths remain low in comparison to the case counts. >> reporter: not only are more people getting covid, more are being infected for a second time. researchers in england spoke with 3,500 covid-positive people this month two-thirds reported having either a suspected or confirmed case before. here in new york, about 80% of reported reinfections have been during the omicron wave theyre also up in minnesota and washington state, but notably some 60% of so-called second-timers there were unvaccin...

A period of stability as case counts go down, but i think we are going to need a regular yearly booster that will keep people protected as they prepare for winter, and thats what were planning to do and what we are aiming to do with the study that weve launched now. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: borisjohnson denies he personally ordered the airlift of animals out of afghanistan. however, emails from officials suggest otherwise. this is the moment that millions in iran have been waitin...

Transmissible, but we didnt ramp up our testing capacity. >> reporter: reasons to be cheerful, west virginias governor is feeling better saying, without question, the fact that i chose to get vaccinated and boosted saved my life. thats all there is to it. and this was the map beginning of last week. cases rising rapidly almost everywhere except maine. today theres a lot less deep red. most of the northeast looking better. >> im very encouraged that case counts are dropping now in this area unmis...

In vaccination rates and hospital capacity. let me show you what i mean here. obviously, look at these numbers. a huge peak a year ago, averaging 250,000 cases a day. right now omicron, just a gigantic 780,000 cases a day. but were handling this much better. why? theres really one big reason. 63% of the country is fully vaccinated. a year ago we didnt have that kind of vaccination rate. overall, by the way, nationally, 83% of icu beds are in use. obviously, with the coastal cities hit first with...