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Week. im gillian turner. mike, great to be with you. >> mike: great to be with you, gillian. a potential pause on in-person learning coming up. long lines and a white house that says there is no solution coming from the feds. its a fox news alert. ♪ ♪ >> the omicron variant is pushing case counts to levels we hadnt seen since this time a year ago. we are about to enter year three of the pandemic. americans are still plagued by a nationwide testing shortage. >> the problems continued at airpo...

Variant drives up case counts and for the second holiday season in a row, health care workers are being pushed to the breaking point. cnns sara sidner spoke with staff in new mexico who are suffering from burnout. >> reporter:? santa fe, new mexico, the annual holiday light display dazzles the eye and lifts the spirit. but these are the lights grabbing all the attention just down the road. this is a covid icu, suddenly as busy as it ever was. >> it is clinically, psychologically impossible to ke...

Italy is just the latest to bring back outdoor mask mandates. and new data from the uk shows people infected with omicron are about 40% less likely to be admitted to hospital than those with delta. but researchers warn omicron is more transmissible, meaning more people get infected and more could end up in hospital. for more on this, lets bring in cnns scott mclean, who is joining us live from london. the nhs is warning folks to keep holiday plans small. otherwise, their health system could beco...

We dont have the kind of evidence dr. fauci is waiting for, but does it mean were not going to see the hospitalizations we saw with delta? >> certainly, andrea, we wont know for another week or two. we always know the hospitalizations and then deaths, of course, lag behind case counts. and i do think its important just to point out that the populations are very different in each place, so it is a little bit like comparing apples and oranges. i think most experts would say its still not definitiv...

Richmond, virginia. president biden walking a fine line this week trying to settle americans fears over the coronavirus pandemic. >> we should all be concerned about omicron, but not panicked. >> all right. its time for three questions in three minutes. he said a little bit more, but lets bring in dr. ali raja, vice chair of emergency medicine at massachusetts general hospital and harvard medical. doctor, thank you so much for being with us. weve been talking a lot lately about sort of refocus...

Moments ago, right here on "new day." >> part of the presidents program which he will be speaking about this afternoon is to dramatically increase the availability of testing, putting up about 20,000 testing sites, were getting half a billion tests very quickly, literally within the next few days. and then have a situation where you can get anywhere from 200 million to half a billion tests per month. so we will be able to very soon have all the tests that people need. >> president biden will als...

Case counts in new york city according to top health officials and in new jersey according to the governor ther e moderna today announced a third shot of its vaccine significantly boosted the bodys defense against the omicron variant. the normal booster dose which is 25% of the two-dose cycle increases antibodies by a factor of 37. but as dr. anthony fauci -- the presidents chief medical adviser -- reminded us today, our fight against the virus is only as effective as the number of people taking...

An interesting trend we will keep an eye on. >> no doubt it is going to be important going forward. no question it is better for you, safer for you to get the third shot if available. jacqueline howard, thank you so much. joining us now is dr. abdul syed, former detroit city health commissioner. great to see you. look, there are skyrocketing case counts across the country, particularly in places like where erica and i are right now in new york city t. the pandemic in some ways is more complicate...

Reversal in his position and a breach of his commitments to the president and the senators colleagues in the house and senate, essentially calling joe manchin a liar, a very strong statement. again, we will see everything on the senate floor when they return in the new year. chuck schumer is saying they are going to bring it to the floor for a vote. . >> the white house said he broke his word. that is very unusual in this type of negotiation back and forth. joe biden knows what that is like in t...