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This year compared to prepandemic levels as well. john. >> nadia romero, thank you very much. as you heard, omicron is spreading like wildfire, causing another massive surge in covid cases this winter. its gotten so bad the cdc is shortening time for health care workers as it anticipates a surge. childrens hospital of philadelphia and a member of the fda vaccine advisory committee. paul, good to see you. so, do these new isolation guidelines mean that omicron variant has a shorter contagious per...

Still ahead here on "morning joe," the united states broke its record for new daily covid cases for the second day in a row. well have the numbers and the ongoing debate over the cdcs easing of isolation guidelines. plus, a look back at the most significant stories of 2021. covid, of course, continued to dominate the headlines in a year that also included an attack on the united states capitol and the end of the war in afghanistan. "morning joe" is coming right back. t back hi susan! honey? ye...

Sort of try and make any predictions here. >> just quickly, cloth masks? yes? no? obviously, n95, kn95 is better but i mean what about cloth masks? >> well, im -- >> im really concerned about cloth masks with -- >> oh, sorry. it was for sanjay. admiral, go ahead. >> i am really concerned about cloth masks with the omicron, particularly the single -- single-layer cloth masks. um, the -- that kind of masking .was probably, you know, relatively effective with other variants but with this one, i thi...

Too few children vaccinated, something like 30% getting their first jab. thats a number that we really need to see go up. >> dr. bassett, you were saying that the vaccinated shed less virus, right? does it make you scratch your head that the cdc didnt differentiate when it comes to the isolation guidelines, that the vaccinated should be able to come out five days with masking versus the unvaccinated, perhaps, staying in isolation longer? >> you know, ive listened to dr. walensky, for whom i have...

Told and believed, he could have done great damage to the officers, fatally wounding one of them if they had not acted in the manner they did. >> what is next in the investigation? what is the process? >> so, state investigators will get involved now because there was a fatality. theyll do their findings. they need to be transparent and accurate and move quickly here. a prosecutor at the state ags office and local prosecutors will sit down and make a determination whether to put the case in fron...

Amid the omicron surge. at the university of kansas health system, similar concerns about their facilitys approaching a breaking point. >> you go from normal operations to contingency and contingency planning means i have to put patients in usual situations, cancel surgeries, but you say were too overwhelmed to do our normal daily work and cant meet all of our patients demands and at that point we have to turn on a switch that says we have to triage to the people we can help the most and let som...

All of our patients demands and at that point we have to turn on a switch that says we have to triage to the people we can help the most and let some people die who we might have been able to help. >> reporter: the u.s. is seeing a record number of hospitalizations for children under 5 years old and new admissions for children under 18 are averaging nearly 800 a day. the figures are fueling the debate about how the nations schoolchildren should continue their spring semester. in georgia, officia...

Mayor and officials late-night move have parents scrambling whether or not the parent should show up on school wednesday. >> unfortunately, tonight, the leaders have this compelling membership to make a decision that will harm hundreds of thousands of chicago families who rely upon pps for their daily needs. in what world would we think to close something a central like in person education when we have seen the negative effects of that when the bars remain open. >> shannon: also breaking tonight...

Stage of the pandemic. but its not alone. new jersey, florida, delaware, and massachusetts also recently reported new daily records, this as the national average of new infections approaches an all-time high set almost one year ago. meanwhile, some medical experts are questioning the c.d.c.s new isolation guidelines. long covid testing lines remain throughout the country, with wait times topping four hours in parts of florida. the recent surge in cases hasesn 1,000 domestic flights today, adding...

Can have access to it. i want to ask you before we get to the vaccine news out of houston about something that michigans department of health is doing, saying they are going to keep with the current isolation guidelines, not the new cdc ones that revised it. you can go from ten days to five days in isolation and then wear a mask the next five days. they want to wait on more evidence from the cdc. so what do you think of that? >> well, you know, one of the problems with the cdc guidelines, and i ...