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Disease can improve in, there were close to 46,000 new cases of covid-19 reported in new york city on wednesday bringing the total number of people of covid in the city close to 1.8 million. and overwhelmed emergency workers to the influx of patients coming through the door. the governor of new york telling hospitals to start recording how many covid patients are admitted because they had symptoms versus how many patients are treated for other illness and ten are also discovered to have covid. >...

Engaging in the community in all sorts of ways, as evidenced by the widespread transmission thats going on right now when schools are closed right now. and so when we come up to january 3rd, those five days of monday through friday, schools will have a choice. do we want, for the 80 waking hours of monday through friday to be 40 hours, where children are in a very regulated environment with universal masking, where we have shown compliance leads 90% if people adhere to that? or do they spend 80 ...

The key swing electorate and we are going to be keeping an eye on them, obviously. >> sean: so, tom, i cannot let you go without asking what the most important state of all 50 states, the great state of wisconsin where i am from. you mentioned ron johnson and the senate seat up in 22 in wisconsin. what is your take on what is meant to happen in the land of the packers? >> yeah, everybody is waiting on senator johnson to tell us whether he is going to run or not. obviously if he runs he is going ...

Blame lies with the school district. they need to figure it out, but the district says they have. union says they havent. >> omar jimenez, thanks. lets talk about this with dr. paul offit. a member of the fdas advisory committee. you heard omars report from chicago. we know that as long as schools are embracing vaccines, ventilation, testing and masking, health experts say its safe for kids to go back. its safe for in-person learning. but there is a shortage in testing. so what should schools ...

Contradiction in terms. for many children its the only decent meal they get during the day. no one has suffered the lack of socialization and development more than children during this pandemic. we all agree that children is better off in school. if thats true, do everything to keep them in school. if theyre over five, vaccinate them. the teachers be vaccinated, the bus drivers be vaccinated. any children with any symptoms that might be covid that they stay out of school and hopefully they can b...

Precious thing and do everything we can to protect those children. the two biggest weapons we have to protect them are masking and vaccination, and we should do everything we can. its so difficult to watch this booster discussion knowing that what were doing is further protecting the already protected and we still just havent been able to get any leeway on the unprotected, i.e., the unprotected population. >> do you think this discussion about whether or not kids should be in schools full-time, ...

Pulmonologist and my colleagues at icus. i think that message was difficult to land, but theyre landing it now. thats why were focusing on serious illness. yeah, you might test positive. yes, you might even have mild symptoms here. this is the new normal and psychologically shifting expectations is going to be really important for the president tomorrow. i know thats the plan hear, but also for americans to understand this is not about preventing exposure necessarily. obviously we can take steps...

Ultimate decision lies with our superintendent and our school board members and i know we did the right thing. >> i think the point that eric adams is making that a lot of parents feel, if you have mitigation efforts, the other mitigation efforts in place, like a vaccine mandate which i believe is going into place in detroit schools maybe next month for staffers -- >> 18th. >> if you have the mitigation measures in place like masking, and ventilation, and some -- and if you do all of these thing...

More. in san francisco a month ago, where i live, we had 50 cases a day and now we have 1,500 being reported and as you know, many are not being reported because theyre being confirmed on rapid tests done at home. so the problem with the math for the next month is you do have a milder illness on average but you have so many more cases that you still are having a lot of people coming to hospitals, hospitals really are getting overwhelmed, nurses and doctors are out. i think were going to have a r...

Contributor and dr. blackstock just as we were getting this news from the federal government here about schools and more testing, it does seem as if everybody is starting to choose their own adventure on the state level. the main department of education changed something here with contact tracing and im curious what you think. conducting contact tracing in a timely and thorough manner is becoming increasingly difficult if not impossible for school personnel given the fast spread of the omicron v...