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Interest not for sort of in a general way what are they telling people to do, it is because of essential workers. we dont want to run out of doctors, dont want to run out of nurses, dont want to run out of people who keep the airlines going. lets take a look at a letter that ceo -- the ceo of delta wrote to dr. rochelle walensky, the director of the cdc. he requested that isolation for fully vaccinated people with covid-19 be shortened from 10 to 5 days. he said, of course, there should be a tes...

Think we should be navigating this? >> well, i think we have to -- you know, theres a lot of happy talk about the lower severity from the omicron variant and its true, but not that much lower. some of the hospitalizations may be from delta, but some omicron and some breakthroughs. i think as we head into the new years weekend, be conservative and be thoughtful. try to keep your gatherings small and surround yourselves with those vaccinated. you dont to come out hospitalized or very sick. this is...

Behalf of your brothers and sisters and that youre this fight with you. >> we want to work, this experimental vaccine, it doesn stop transmission. the doctor stated so three days ago. with that being said, our job should be king contingent on that. we want to make medical decisions with our doctor, not with our mayor so we asked her to roll this back, following th science, we are following the science evens over first responders and we would hope that our mayor would do the sam thing. to get tha...

The meeting was very significant. the cdcs chief medical officer, a person called kathleen dooling, she unveiled her plan to distribute the vaccines nationally. she began by acknowledging that older americans indeed faced the greatest risk, as everyone understood. so if you wanted to save as many americans as possible from dying, you would give preference, the first shots, to people over 65, thats the obvious policy. it may be the only morally defensible policy but there was a problem with doing...

Infects. also with omicron now detects in all states, and d.c. and puerto rico, the biden administration is lifting the travel ban on seven african nations and south africa. lets begin with lucy kafanov. right here in new york, this is the epicenter of the pandemic when it started to two years ago and just broke another record in terms of case counts. >> reporter: that is right, poppy. more than 44,000 new cases in new york. that is up 14% from the previous record breaking day. but there is good...

Than at any time since the start of the pandemic. testing sites overwhelmed, lines still stretching for hours. >> were trying to be the proactive type and get it done. if we dont know, then we could be spreading it around a lot further. >> reporter: but the lines mask a bigger problem, says dr. peter hotez. >> the hard reality is its hard to get a covid test. it shouldnt be that way, but that is the reality. >> reporter: the misery continues at the nations airports. today alone, more than 1,000 ...

Isolation and then a five-day masking period. >> yeah, theres data, i put an asterisk on it because i was not a huge fan of broad change for the entire population. i thought it made sense for essential workers, firefighters, ems, doctors, nurses, but not everybody. but there is data to support that the most infectious time, katy, on average, let me highlight, underscore, bold "on average," is the first five days after a positive contact. you may not be symptomatic at all, but those are the most ...

Yet, despite indias capital delhi locking down over the weekend, he remains upbeat. translation: the way corona cases are on the rise this lockdown, the weekend curfew is a must. for the past two years, we have faced losses and we will face the same in the future. i will be happy when the amount of cases are lower and there is no lockdown. as the authorities grapple with a fresh surge in cases, partly fuelled by the fast—spreading omicron variant, most businesses here are still recovering from...

Days followed by five days of wearing a mask. this comes as the latest data shows new cases in this country are now averaging more than 200,000 a day. and the "new york times" says reports from 14 states indicate this current covid surge is now worse than last winters. earlier this evening, white house medical advisor anthony fauci described the thinking behind the new cdc regulations. >> you have so many people simultaneously testing positive, and you want to make sure that particularly among e...

Options including boosting testing. amara? >> im sure thats reassuring to a lot of people. joining me is dr. marian bassett, the acting health commissioner for the state of new york. thanks for joining me. lets start with these staggering numbers that polo ran through. case numbers at an all-time high, hospitalizations surging, and of course more essential workers calling out sick because they have the virus. what are you most concerned about when you look at these numbers? >> youre right, the n...