Delta Devastates News Today

There appears to be hopeful news in the united kingdom. the u.k. health agency says data suggests omicron patients are 50% to 70% less likely to require hospitalization than those with delta. the fda today authorized a second covid pill for emergency use. this one from merck. >> in patients who are at high risk for covid-19 complications, there was a 30% reduction in the risk of hospitalizations and deaths. >> reporter: thats less effective than pfizers pill, but an additional tool as delta deva...

Massachusetts is in this situation we are the most vaccinated state in the country. and yet, here we are in a surge of covid thats just as bad as where we were last year at this point. >> reporter: as delta devastates lives, the more-contagious mutation of omicron on its way to becoming more dominant in the u.s. has now been found in at least 33 states the cdc says genomic surveillance shows the variant detected at a rate of 3% nationally. but at 13% in parts of the northeast. >> what were seein...