make policy decisions under conditions of uncertainty. balancing very different interests. how you think about the way that i laid out that framework, how you re thinking about this moment in a state that s undergoing a very, very severe spike? that s true. new york state is undergoing a severe spike. we presume it s omicron spike. we have 60% of our variants now are omicron variant. 67,000 new cases is the number that we have from yesterday. we have that omicron pattern that you showed from the uk, that you described in south africa. since i ve been commissioner, we ve done two things. one is the governor has declared what s called a mask or vax mandate. and the other is we on december 24th studied for health workers a shortened period of isolation following asymptomatic positive test for covid. our tools are the same ones that
of the state. great pleasure to have both of you returning to the program. doctor let me start with you. as somebody who is a public health official. who s had to do the stuff of public health. make policy decisions, under conditions of uncertainty. bouncing very different interests. how do you think about the way i laid out that framework. how you are thinking about this moment. in a state that is undergoing a very severe spike. that is true. new york state is undergoing a severe spike. we presume is in omicron. have 60% of our variants now, the omicron variant. 67,000 new cases is the number that we have from yesterday. we have that omicron pattern that you showed for the uk. that you described in south africa. and since i ve been commissioner, we ve done two things. one, the governor has declared orders a mask, or vaccine mandate. the other is we on december 24th, instituted for health
0 democracy. and the truth about the great shoplifting freak out of 2020. one state now proposing a bounty for parents who find banned books in school. when all in, starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. that s we are about to enter a new year. the third calendar year of the pandemic. take a look at this map. put out by the centers of disease control and prevention. it shows the level of community transmission of covid in america right now. laughing at sort of a joke. it s a pretty clear map. solid red in all 50 states. district of columbia and puerto rico experiencing cdc calls high transmission. we are getting new records. as daily case counts sore across the country to the highest amount we diversity. can see on this chart. line is practically going straight up. as we assess where we are right now. i think it s important to understand the fact, omicron variant is just much more transmissible than the previous variants. particularly, the early ones. just a dif