croup, that barky cough and they are testing positive for covid so it s possible, possible that omicron, while staying in the upper part of the airway in an adult like you or me would cause a bad cold, and in a younger child it can still settle down to the upper part of the airway that s narrower because they are smaller, their necks are smaller and cause a condition such as croup or other conditions as well. not settling all the way down into lungs, that s good but still causing problems, and so one other thing i want to point out is that when case numbers, i emphasize the hospitalization numbers about. i m going to shift back to the skyrocketing case numbers now. that s still actionable information because cdc has recommended for months now that when neuroan area with substantial or high transmission and that s based on cases per 100,000 people, that you should mask indoors, so use your case numbers to determine your behavior, masking indoors is an example. everybody should get vacci
beaten the crap out of it. if covid was an enemy battalion, would ve bonded to smithereens but covid is invisible in the government set for two years said we have all the answers but they didn t have any answers. and for some reason people still continue to believe government is holier-than-thou when government is basically a bunch of political appointees who oversee bureaucrats who can t fire and they just nag you and nag you until you obey them and you disobey them and they find you. so at this point we are wondering how long do you have to be how wrong do you have to be before we doubt everything you say. at one point they said plastic dividers needed to be installed all over the country. useless. the 6 feet social distancing number, they meted up. it was arbitrary. back in the day used two question the hospitalization numbers come east to be called a conspiracy theorist.
identified more than 28,000 new covid-19 cases via pcr testing, governor phil murphy said on thursday. the number of positive cases likely higher due to at-home testing. some governors are calling on the national guard. ohio governor mike dewine deploying 1,250 national guard troops on the day the state reported its highest hospitalization numbers. georgia also deployed 200 troops in the same week that six major health systems saw 100 to 200% increases in hospitalizations, governor brian kemp said. and new york doubling national guard deployment to 100 and preparing for 80 guardsmen to undergo emergency medical training next month, according to the governor. with more virus spreading in the country, more than 30 colleges and universities are changing the start of their spring semesters, and more children are getting sick and being hospitalized than at any other point in the pandemic, just as their school will be navigating reopening after the holidays. quantitatively, you re having s
300,000 cases a day. hospitalizations are also climbing to more than 84,000, up 70% from last month. at least ten states are reporting their highest hospitalization numbers of the pandemic. more than 1,500 americans are dying each day from the virus, an increase of 72% in the last month. and the cdc now predicting tens of thousands more could die from covid in the next four weeks. but there is some positive news, and that is new research from south africa that a johnson & johnson booster shot provides strong protection against omicron. let s start with elizabeth cohen on these numbers. we ve been talking a lot about numbers, but there really is a big concern about how this is going time pact our daily lives. reporter: that s right, because, you know, we ve heard so much, amara, about how omicron is so transmissible, but
combat the virus includes expanding testing sites across the country, distributing 500 million free at-home tests to those who request them. estates that is righting next month. deploying 1,000 service members to strained hospitals and adding new vaccination sites. while cases are skyrocketing, it is the overall hospitalization numbers that we need to keep an eye on. they are rising steadily, not yet spiking. joining us is professor h hazeltine. professor, thank you so much for being with us. i want to start with what i think is probably the most important development from what president biden said yesterday. his guidance to americans vaccinated and boosted, he said you can gather safely with your loved ones on this christmas holiday. how do you feel about that guidance? i think that s only partially correct. i think to be safe you need to be vaccinated and tested one day