Case Positivity News Today

teachers at the end of may. and new details about what the 77 minutes of school hallway surveillance video shows. plus, a new covid variant spreading at an alarming rate throughout the united states, and this one is not deterred even by recent infections. so how do the vaccines hold up against it? welcome to "the lead." im jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and members of the january 6th select house committee now publicly suggesting they will use tomorrows hearing to dra...

Terms of case positivity, in terms of number of cases, hospitalizations. and those deaths, even though theyre 300, 400, thats more than 100,000 deaths annually, which is two or three-times our worst flu season. this is still a significant and killer illness. we need to take it seriously. from my view, the two biggest problems and gaps right now, not nearly enough people have gotten the booster. the reason you need to do that -- you have to get boosted anyway. after about five months after your l...

Are still full of patients who are hospitalized with covid means were not quite ready. well probably end up as you mentioned with the case positivity or rate being in the 20-ish range for when we can start lowering restrictions. but we also have to keep into account that a lot of places have hospitals that are completely full. so even then it might take time for the hospitalizations to go down so that were ready for any sicker patients who come in. >> to that point you make a key point. how much...

Hospital situation looks like in every community. right now, there are about 250 counties in the united states with no hospital bed capacity. and as the wave of omicron sort of declines in the united states, and it will do it in a way coming from the northeast toward the south, well be able to open up. cases in new york city and washington, d.c. have declined since the peak, at the early part of january, by about 85%. case positivity rates in new york are down from 10% last week to 5% today. so ...

A look at the latest headlines and information on COVID-19 variants, testing, cases, vaccines, treatments, FAQs and more.

A look at the latest headlines and information on COVID-19 variants, testing, cases, vaccines, antibody treatments, FAQs and more.

Doors open. thats because governor ron desantis threatened in an executive order he signed friday to withhold money if schools implement a mask mandate. cnns rosa flores is in ft. lauderdale for us. youre there in broward county, and we know the mayor in broward told you the situation right now is terrifying. tell us about it. >> reporter: you know, victor, he described it as terrifying because hes looking at the data. hes looking at the numbers, and if you look at those, youll see that regardle...

Oklahoma reported a major drop in COVID-19 cases in the past week, a decline that is obvious on a case-tracking chart.A top state health official said the drop isn’t due to technical problems, as has sometimes been the case in the past. Over the past week or so, the state has seen the largest sustained drop in cases of the entire pandemic. The drop was so large that health officials wondered if something was wrong with the system."So they sent a team over to do analytics on all of it and...