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"With any infectious disease, we know that those cases that are reported are typically just the tip of the iceberg."

The Jackson County Legislature was considering a proposed ordinance Tuesday that would have required masks in public schools. The measure was withdrawn after debate.

Today’s closure of McKinleyville Middle School in the wake of significant staffing shortages due to COVID is likely a harbinger of what’s to come in...

Today’s closure of McKinleyville Middle School in the wake of significant staffing shortages due to COVID is likely a harbinger of what’s to come in...

The explosive increase in U.S. coronavirus case counts is raising alarm, but some experts believe the focus should instead be on COVID-19 hospital admissions. And those aren’t climbing as fast

Dr. anthony fauci yesterday offering a really helpful framing as we confront this latest covid wave, right? the point hes making is that the case numbers, its worth watching, but they may not be the most consequential thing right now, if most of the cases were getting with this omicron wave are cases in which people arent getting particularly i mean, with this new wave of covid infections, were having cases around the country, new infections have gone so much that the chart showing our daily cas...

95% of the covid cases in this country are from the omicron variant. just 5% of them believed to be from the delta variant. now, obviously this comes amid that rapid surge of cases weve seen around the country with the country hitting new highs. the white house insists that the focus should not be on case counts, but hospitalizations and deaths. the white house has said that the desire of those vaccines is to try to limit severe illness. as a function ofcases being so high, hospitalizations have...

Wings love affair with hungarys orbon is next. and later, amid skyrocketing case counts of covid fueled by the omicron variant, big challenges schools are facing this week as they try to stay open while keeping kids and teachers safe. try to stay open while keeping kids and teachers safe. its your home. and theres no place like wayfair to make your reach-in closet, feel like a walk-in closet now thats more your style.

Getting together. hospitalizations of course tend to lag case counts. were already seeing hospitalizations rising again, now averaging at levels not seen since the end of september. are you worried about whether the nations healthcare system can handle this over the next few weeks? >> oh, absolutely. and were going to see maybe greatest stress test of our hospitals since the beginning of this pandemic. so, mind you, before omicron, parts of this country were stressed to begin with. parts of the ...

Your reporting. >> thanks, paula. with me now are dr. amish adull gentleman, senior scholar at johns hopkins university. all right. doctor, i want to start with you. we know the u.s. is averaging more than 386,000 cases a day. hospitalizations havent risen as much. we know those numbers usually lag case counts. so from what you were seeing, do you think the health care system could be overwhelmed in the next few weeks? >> i certainly think that there are certain regions of the country where th...