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Playing on parental love for their children. its terrible. >> ben: um-huh. you know, one of the things that we have seen across this country has been that these areas that have the most severe approaches that take on, you know, a lot of political character to them are also ones that have seen recent case counts spike not just for kids but for adults, of course in washington and new york city i believe we have the numbers for those, we have seen these spikes of late, despite the fact that both ci...

We really need to change our mindset and stop focusing on daily new case counts. as we know the virus is everywhere. it is impressive how highly transmissible and contagious this is. what is more important at this point is how many people are being hospitalized and how many people are dying from this virus. and while there is still a very high number, unfortunately what we havent been able to do throughout the entire course of this pandemic is have true figures a good idea of which people are in...

Them. >> doctor, thanks for being with us and a happy new year to you. >> thank you. happy new year to you. thank you. still ahead, eye popping omicron case counts could throw a wrench into next weeks back to school plans. around 30 0 u.s. schools planning to stay closed after winter break. ill talk to an administrator about concerns hes hearing. first the state of emergency in colorado. hundreds of homes burned by wildfires. tens of thousands of people evacuated. we are on the ground in bou...

Welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. im john vause. youre watching "cnn newsroom." another day of record high covid infections for many european countries. the uk, ireland, greece, spain, italy. among the nations reporting their highest daily case count ever. cnn has the latest from london. >> reporter: amid skyrocketing infection rates and record breaking case counts, britains national health service says it is now on a war footing. its preparing plans for...

New cases per day have more than doubled over the past two weeks, eclipsing the old mark of 250,000, set in mid-January.

Hospitalizations are indeed down. pediatric hospitalizations are up. we just spoke to someone who works at the national childrens hospital in d.c. said pediatric hospitalizations are up. you see that data, i assume, right? >> no, absolutely. and we are looking at that closely, but even in the raw numbers of our -- of children in the hospital, while that increased in the last two weeks in december, it is still a relatively low number and well within their capacity. >> yeah, i definitely think you...

Voices of opposition even from state media outlets like beijing news saying this in is serious violation of the spirit of the rule of law and should never happen again. but so far local authorities stand firm behind this decision saying this was meant to send out a strong warning to the local population not to break any immigration and covid laws and regulations, and they see nothing inappropriate about this. but beijing leadership has been touting the effectiveness of their zero covid policy sa...

As much as possible. but the administration is reckoning with the fact that the case counts are exponentially so much higher now than they were a few weeks ago and even higher than they were at the peak. so that is what a driving a pragmatic strategy here than something that is simply about following what might be the best science. there are an important component to what they keep recommending, the isolation and quarantining has to be coupled with mask wearing in the second half of that ten-day...

Infectious for the two days before they develop symptoms and three days after that. but beyond that, it is not really clear that there is any improvement in the case counts sort of beyond that, if we continue to quarentine for day six through 11. so it is really worth trying to tailor those interventions where we could have what looked like normal life and adapt to what is an infectious virus. >> let me ask you this question because it is somewhat personal for me. i have two kids, both under fiv...

Hour ago. how did they defend the cdcs new quarantine and isolation guidelines? >> reporter: yeah, joe, this was an important opportunity for the country to hear from the presidents top advisers on dealing with the pandemic. so many questions about a number of issues. we heard from dr. fauci, new data, which indicates that this particular strain, the omicron strain, while it is much more highly transmissible, does appear to be less severe. thats certainly some good news, even if the transmissibi...