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And the store shelves emptying, too. dennis stevenson is a military veteran and retired with a fixed income and years of experience bargain hunting. he says hes made new cutbacks to keep the refrigerator full. >> that means cutting corners. it really hurts, like, christmastime, like, for your grand kids. >> reporter: todays report on inflation shows ground beef prices up 13%. double-digit jumps in the price of eggs, crackers, and bread, breakfast cereal up 6%, and the milk you pour in it, up by ...

The endemic phase. like the flu, widespread illness, everybody gets it, if you badly hurt by it, and proceed accordingly. that has been pretty obvious. he would never know it from listening to joe biden today. great britain, which has been almost hysterical in the face of covid, has come to the same conclusion. so today, as joe biden pushed everyone to take a third covid shot, calling it the optimal protection you can have except for natural immunity which is much more effective, as he was sayin...

Joining me now the u.s. surgeon general dr. vivek murthy. thanks so much for joining us. case numbers have soared past 800,000 cases per day for the first time today. hospitalizations are the highest theyve ever been. are we at the weak of this surge right now do you think or if not, when do you think we should expect the peak to come? >> well, jake, this is a very difficult time during this surge. we are seeing high case numbers and hospitalization rates as you mentioned and were also seeing st...

I thought that there was too much scepticism. the world was not willing to believe that this virus was somehow going to be less severe. everybody was expecting the worst and when they went seeing it they were questioning whether our observations were sufficiently scientific. it seems high income countries are much able to absorb bad news that comes from a country such as south africa, but when we talk about omicron, they shut the borders to south africa and were keen to absorb that bad news when...

New york city. see that line graph shows the seven-day rolling average of cases. again, new york city. you can see that the caseload number at least has started finally to fall in recent days, and thankfully, it is a similar story with hospitalizations in new york, which are following, temporarily following the case numbers, but they also appear to have started to turn the corner. may that continue. if those trends continue in new york city, and that is a big if, it could be a sign that this cur...

But they are also cutting the quarantine period there, too. so definitely, recommend people refer to the cdc guidelines, especially if their employers who are now trying to figure out what to do with getting their employees back to work. >> yeah, i suspect this is going to come as a great help to employers right now who are -- they are just all trying to figure out what to do right now. dr. desi, i want to look at hospitalization figures in new york city over the course of the pandemic for those...

The beds with patients waiting either to be admitted and they were held for days or transferred to ambulances that didnt exist because they were driving other people around to places. so that whole system has been broken. were coming out of that a little bit, but now with omicron were seeing the numbers go up again. came into the day shift today with several people unvaccinated, high amounts of oxygen waiting to get transferred and us providing in patient care in a space where in patient care sh...

Im going to do. im not going to allow the hysteria to prevent the future of my children seeking a quality education and the development a sociologists are stating they need. >> doctor, in new york state the governor has ordered 40 hospitals to stop all nonurgent elective surgery for at least two weeks. theyre basically rationing medical care amid this latest surge. what are you seeing at your hospital right now? are you having to turn any people away or limit who gets care based on what youre se...

Scenario 13 here. >> yes >> reporter: a mixture of in-person and remote learning, an ipad for every student, and staff focused on emotional support for students, all measures helping to keep the district school doors open even amid the current omicron wave the superintendent says theyre taking a long view of educating in a pandemic. >> weve got to figure out how we respond to problems we dont even know about yet. >> reporter: under federal relief bills congress allocated $190 billion for schools...

Of the unvaccinated. meanwhile the british prime minister, borisjohnson, says he hopes england can "ride out" the current wave of covid—i9 infections. we have a good chance of getting through the omicron wave without the need for further restrictions, and without the need certainly for a lockdown. japan says that north korea has fired another suspected ballistic missile. south korea has also reported the launch of what it called an unspecified projectile from north koreas east coast. the launc...