Omicron At News Today

Number of people and the percentage of people who are sick enough, for example, to require hospitalization. so your point about might it be more important as we now merge into possibly a less severe in virus, which it looks like it is right now, that the critical parameter is how sick people get, do they have to go to the hospital, what is the deaths, as opposed to what is the absoluteh number of positive tests and infected people that you have. very often you cant just forget about the number o...

>> thats a very good point. and we are really moving in that direction. it becomes even more relevant when youre dealing -- and we hope, as you mentioned early on, one of the positive encouraging things is that it appears that omicron, from data both in south africa, the uk, and accumulating data here in the united states, indicates that it very well might not be as severe. and many people, from studies that are going on right now, who get omicron have either no symptoms or minimally symptomatic...

Workers, too, if they really need that. >> if you have been exposed to the coronavirus and need to quarantine, there is a different guidance for people who are vaccinated and boosted than for the unvaccinated, but if you are infected and need to isolate, the recommendations dont change, depending on whether youre vaccinated or not. can you explain that for us? >> yeah, if youre infected, youre infected.ai whether or not youre vaccinated or not vaccinated, youre infected.nf when you talk about ex...

Recorded its highest ever single-day record for new covid infections. with new cases drawing less of a curve and more of a straight vertical line. new cases in the last two weeks are up by 126%. the world health organization said today theyre anticipating a, quote, tsunami of new cases worldwide over the next few weeks.s e o q but so far, thankfully, we have not seen a tsunami of new hospitalizations and deaths along with the spread of omicron.at the hospitalization rate is, in fact, upn over th...

0 now, the white house repeatedly has warned russia over the last few weeks that a russian invasion of ukraine would have severe, severe diplomatic and economic consequences. what did administration official told politicaltratio official told politica will come in the midst of a, quote, moment of crisis between the two nations. well have a lot more on that coming up later in the show.ha but we start tonight with a moment of crisis of our own right here at home.a take a look at this map. this i...