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Be a persistent risk. we have to think differently about respiratory pathogens in the wintertime. i think infection levels will continue to come down as we get into the spring and summer. hopefully we have the quiet summer i thought we would have last year and delta came along. i think we will have a period where infection levels will be low, prevalence will be low. people will resume normal lives this spring and summer. we dont see anything on the horizon that will alter that trajectory. again,...

Deeply grim milestone. 900,000 americans have died from the virus. not that far away from a million. but there are encouraging signs that the omicron surge may be coming to an end. cases dropping dramatically over the last week. some optimism, some hope we all need right now. joining us now is dr. sanchez, a pediatrician. great to see you. look, its no secret parents with children under five are living in limbo, right, as we continue to wait for news on a vaccine for our youngest children. i hav...

Pandemic and reverberate through europe. the president says democracy can be snuffed out in 2022. thats a green light for other auto kratz like lets say xi jinping to believe the america around the west has no stomach to fight back against this. so i think what you see is a domino effect. that would have repercussions first in europe and around the world. we can say, well, thats over there. its really too late by the time democracy has been snuffed out. in the end, its very hard to restore them....

This was an attack on the city of new york. after the omicron wave, what experts say could come next this year. >> i do think that if we do it right, we are going to have a 2022 in which covid doesnt dominate our lives so much. >> reporter: also tonight, a virginia mom charged after threatening a school board with violence if her children were forced to wear masks. >> i will bring every single gun loaded and ready -- and finally, what we know about arnold schwarzeneggers multi-vehicle crash ...

Concert industry, it was with the expectation that cases were calming down and things would be able to proceed. but with the omicron wave, it hasnt been like that. these concert promoters are committed to still doing shows, but what weve seen is that the postponements and delays and cancellations will be a persistent issue as long as the shows are happening in this pandemic. 2s. shows are happening in this pandemic-— shows are happening in this andemic. �* w shows are happening in this andem...

>> that is story of this jobs report. not only what happened in december, but what happened the rest of 2021, which is job growth pretty consistently. >> and if you tell people its true that these jobs reports were disappointing, then nobody pays attention to the revisions. you end up with a situation where people feel that theyre sort of in a funk about the economy. and the economy is, when i was covering economics during the financial crisis, and as america was coming out of the financial cris...

Economy really entered this omicron wave from a position of strength, which is great. now growth is probably slowing down as we speak because of all these business disruptions. but this is just one more indicator that speaks to a pretty hot economy. unemployment rate is down to 3.9%. april 2020 it went up to almost 15%. we also saw 4.5 million people quit their jobs in november, many of them because they felt they could get a better jobs elsewhere and wages growing at nearly 5% in december that ...

Past where new variants can rip through the population. it will take something dramatically different, with a different profile than what weve seen previously from other variants of omicron to have the capacity to move through the population the way delta did and the way omicron did. >> doctor, can you talk to me about travel? clearly the restrictions on troofl around the world are hampering businesses and hampering economies around the world. when you talk about relaxing restrictions as we star...

Coronavirus restrictions, even though infections there are still high. denmark will lift all covid measures starting tuesday. the country has high levels of immunity due to high vaccination rates and previous infections. meanwhile, many countries in eastern europe are being hard-hit by the spread of omicron. romania, poland, and hungary are among the nations reporting high number of daily infections last week. and in israel, the number of serious covid cases has reached 1,000 for the first time ...

Investigating truly remarkable the prime ministers own party. scott mclean, thanks so much. new this morning on covid, pfizer and byiontech announced n omicron-specific vaccine. >> this could be a major development. elizabeth cohen joins us now. several cities have already passed the omicron peak. so as welcome as this news may be, will it make a significant difference at this point? >> you know, it is interesting, it is unclear what kind of difference an omicron specific vaccine would make, a...