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And tonight the u.s. is blowing through pandemic records as quickly as the omicron variant is sweeping across the country. lets get more on the breaking news about hospital admissions for children hitting a new high. our senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohen joins us. how much worse could this get for the children in the country? >> it can get so much worse. the case numbers are going up so quickly, even a small percentage of children are hospitalized, a small percentage of the huge numb...

Hospitals and front line workers across the country to their limits. >> now we have the covid surge going on that is just pushing everything over. in my career, ive not seen numbers and volumes like this. >> reporter: at least 1 in every 70 americans tested positive for covid last week. thats nearly 5 million new infections, a pandemic record. and that number likely does not include all the people testing positive using at-home kits. >> i expect this surge to peak in the next couple of weeks. it...

Emphasized. again, this is the letter from the attending physician of the congress of the united states. brian monahan who is essentially the doctor for the house and senate advising a maximal telework posture for congress. again, the senate is supposed to be in session this week, we will see how that plays out. we will have more later on this hour as to what is going on with hospitalization numbers, we have seen over the past couple weeks as case numbers have just gone off the charts by infecti...

He faces deportation from australia. in his statement, the countrys immigration minister alex hawke said... the prime minister, scott morrison, said the sacrifices australians made throughout the pandemic should be protected. mr morrisons government has faced heavy criticism for allowing the unvaccinated player into australia in the first place, while the country struggled with a spike in covid—i9 case numbers. i think it was a mess—up that they did but now i think they corrected it. its unf...

Safe enough for students and staff to return in person, amid record covid-19 case numbers we have seen among students, staff and throughout the city of chicago over the past few weeks. but the school district has pushed back on that saying, transmission is not happening in the classroom. they have seen no widespread evidence of that. and further they argue that the tactics of doing a district wide move to virtual learning just isnt practical. part of what they propose is doing school level metri...

Their spouses. has there been a white house outbreak? >> our policy is that, which is important for the public to know. its in the public interest to know. and of course your interest if theres anyone who has close contact as deemed by the white house medical unit with the president, the vice president, the first lady or the second gentleman. well make that information available as we have done, as those instances have occurred. i was only conveying theres break through cases here. theres 2,000 ...

>> professor, the argument essentially here, based on what were looking at from this study, which still has to be peer reviewed and published in a scientific journal of course is that in the short-term, omicron is causing all of these ebbs. that is clear. we dont even need to go into that. but longer term it would be of benefit. >> im sorry. i lost you -- i lost the question. >> i think the argument is essentially that what youre seeing here and finding is in the short-term omicron is causing al...

Is not caused increased the restrictions in england at the state and certainly not go down the root of a lockdown. because they are clear that the severity of omicron is much less than the delta and its not translating into intensive care units getting filled up and did not translating into higher numbers of deaths. so we are monitoring the data but at the moment all three of the people in downing street today led by the premises at that point out, plan b, those measures passed in opposition bef...

Now? >> no, we shouldnt be panicking. i think we have to take into consideration that we have a more contagious variant, that cases are going up and in certain regions of the country hospitals may have some difficult weeks ahead, but its not a time for panic. this is not the beginning of 2020 this is 2021. we have tools, rapid tests, antivirals, monoclonal antibodies and vaccines. science has given us so many tools to cope with this virus. >> so many places around the country including new york ...

Skyrocketing case numbers. there was one day on new years eve day, 85,000 cases recorded in just a single day, but the new mayor in this town wants to get kids back in classrooms. hes asked for negative tests from teachers, staff, and students before they come back into classrooms. thats just making the lines in this city longer and longer. there are some places that have decided to stay remote, big cities like cleveland and atlanta. other places pausing that return so kids can go and get tested...