Ocean Omicron News Today

Nearly 800 flights tomorrow already canceled too. from the air to the ocean omicron is also impacting holiday cruises. the carnival ship is denied entry into aruba due to covid cases. its the third cruise liner from florida reporting cases on board. florida itself reporting near 32,000 new cases friday breaking a single day record in the united states. so far this month, 3.4 million americans have contracted covid, so the states you see right here on this map in red or orange have seen a rise in...

Than previous lineages. i would say, you know, maybe part of that is true. its still pretty -- its still a bad actor, and were still seeing a big uptick in hospitalizations, and we have the story of the fact that so many health care workers are now calling out sick because of breakthrough covid. thats a very dangerous combination. >> and across europe, millions are preparing to celebrate another christmas under lockdown. its all in an effort to slow an onslaught of omicron cases. countries like ...

Has lifted travel restrictions on eight african nations which had been implemented to stop the spread of omicron. what more do we know about that? >> those restrictions will go away at 12:01 a.m. on december 31st, now the white house is saying this was a decision made based on the science because, first of all, we now know that the vaccines we have are effective at preventing serious illness from omicron, particularly for those who are boosted, and second of all, officials telling us that accord...

If youre going to see grandma tonight within a half hour, take the test. it might show up differently than it did yesterday or the day before. they are most effective when taken a couple of days apart. lindsey. >> wow, a line around the block on christmas day. liz mclaughlin, thank you. >> its been a dialed back christmas at the white house as the bidens celebrate their first christmas. covid is putting a dampener on the usual oval office festivities. joe biden and vice president kamala harris h...

Hospitalizations in new york city over the last 14 days. we have, i think its about a 65% increase in hospitalization in washington, d.c., over the last 14 days, and so you know, the narrative out there is that omicron is much less severe than previous lineages. i would say, you know, maybe part of that is true, but its still pretty -- its still a bad actor, and were still seeing a big uptick in hospitalizations, and we have the story of the fact that so many health care workers are now calling ...

And testing access, and always look for a way to do better and the announcement today is an effort to do exactly that. we have taken a number of steps over the past several months and his view is we need to do more, and we need to do it more as ambitiously and aggressively as possible. >> with the latest reporting on todays developments, liz mclaughlin is in north carolina and josh lederman is in the white house. the uptake in omicron looks to be sending a chill through the christmas holiday. wh...

There certain ly is a lot to discuss. joining me right now, dr. ebony hilton, an msnbc medical contributor and dr. peter hotez, codirector for the center for vaccine development and dean of the national school of tropical medicine at baylor college of medicine. hello to you both. dr. hotez, were learning a lot each day about this new variant. we have some data on its transmissibility and severity. knowing what we know right now, what gives you caution, and what gives you some hope? >> well, im l...

Contract omicron, have to isolate. that leads to short staffing, and that means its going to take fewer cases to overwhelm the hospitals here. a third of health care workers will be out by new years eve. thats dangerous, thats scary. thats why the government is thinking about reimposing restrictions as early as monday. >> wow, some really stark numbers. thank you so much. the 30 rock christmas tree, the january 6th committee, an obnoxious and offensive remark at a white house event and the hop...

Omicron appears to be going down as quickly as it went up. so can we extrapolate anything from that? can we anticipate well see the same pattern here in the u.s.? >> i know a lot of people want to do that, and we are also seeing a decline in the uk. heres the unknown piece. theres no question that its going up pretty quickly, it will start to go down, but we have seen waves before that people look at this in the uk and south africa, hey, its starting to go down, and then it gets stuck. it gets s...

Now to the latest developments on the coronavirus pandemic. the current seven-day average of new daily cases in the u.s. is above 120,000 with an average of about 1,180 deaths per day. and just into our newsroom, the u.s. has surpassed 52 million cases as of this morning since the start of the pandemic. getting covid tests for holiday travel has been a major hurdle in recent days. to help make this process more efficient and accessible, the white house is planning to distribute 500 million at ho...