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Case numbers are high, and the impacts of that are severe, and of course the future trajectory remains uncertain at this stage but largely because of the efforts everyone has made, we are i think in a better position than i feared would be the case when additional measures were announced in december and i do hope we are now seeing signs of improvement. that is allowing us to start the process from monday of lifting the additional restrictions and i hope next week i will be able to confirm the fu...

Welcome back to "state of the union." im jake tapper. daily covid cases in the united states are topping 800,000 for the first time, and the biden administration is rolling out a new plan to try to help americans track down rapid covid tests, but is that new push coming too late? joining me now the u.s. surgeon general dr. vivek murthy. thanks so much for joining us. case numbers have soared past 800,000 cases per day for the first time today. hospitalizations are the highest theyve ever been. a...

More than with previous variants. were seeing in the uk, omicron cases doubling about every two to two and a half days. so even if it turns out that it causes milder symptoms or this overall the numbers of people that it puts in hospital are lower than with previous variants, were looking at potential case numbers that could still overwhelm health systems and cause huge disruptions to workplaces and schools. >> as you lay out all that information, specifically the transmissibility even, it makes...

New complication for schools as students return to the classroom after the holiday break. heres nbcs stephanie gosk with more. >> reporter: across the country the vast majority of students are back in in-person classes but new numbers from the american academy of pediatrics show just how fast covid case numbers are rising among children. in the week leading up to christmas, pediatric covid cases reached nearly 200,000, but troubling new numbers from the american academy of pediatrics show an eve...

The coronavirus pandemic as case numbers are rising there. desantis is calling florida the freest state in the united states. cnn reporter joins us from st. petersburg, florida. desantis never said the word coronavirus, pandemic or vaccines. did he? >> reporter: he didnt, and it was quite notable that as all of these cases are rising in florida, that were still in the middle of a pandemic, and its still very much in florida, a crisis of being vaccinated, that governor desantis in this 30-minute ...

Much. its not quite as steep rise as the caseload. maybe? that is for the country as a whole. but now look at some of the leading states that have been first hit with this wave of omicron. the hospitalization charts in these first hit states are starting to look a little scary too. here for example is a look at the daily cases in new jersey, and you see the huge spike on the right side of the graph there. it is beyond any record the state have seen before in terms of new cases. now look at the h...

59%, suggesting that while the new variant was on the rise, it is not infecting people at the rate that the cdc just projected. >> pediatric hospitalizations are also near their september peak though. nationwide hospitalizations of children with the virus have jumped on average nearly 50% in just one week. parents understandably concerned as vaccination rates particularly among the pediatric population continue to lag leaving many children potentially vulnerable to infection. president biden say...

Hospitalizations havent seen that rapid rise, up only 3% in the last week. testing the remains. huge concern as the united states tries to keep the numbers down. long lines await those attempting to take a covid test as we look at footage from raleigh, north carolina. scenes like that playing out across the country, some of the largest cities and states breaking records and case numbers. new york setting a new high with 44,000 new cases reported on friday alone. in los angeles, meantime, new cas...

That have to report positive tests are way behind because of the holidays, and so those case numbers are artificially low inherently. we have well more than a million cases, but what we really need to look at and the sort of weak link in the system at the moment as your reporters have pointed out, is the health care system. we look at hospitalizations, hospitalizations where people are requiring oxygen for covid, thats a much more important measure, and again, as your reporters have pointed out,...

Out, if this becomes the dominant strain, sign me up for that one. if i have to get some kind of covid, which we all will get it if we havent yet, than that is a good thing. they should be considered sort of the end game of the pandemic when it becomes just endemic basically a head cold.de but the powers that be of course, they dont want that because for them it is all i abt control and they cant use it to control us anymore if it is this mild situation. >> jesse: well, you and scientists and ev...