Prayerfully Omicron News Today

Had a vaccine at all. i will say this, if you have omicron and looking in the rear view mirror, you have a super booster out of that not only that finding in a study from south africa yesterday that omicron actually decreases your ability to get delta. it actually gives you antibodies to delta. not just omicron. so in the rear view mirror, omicron is actually going to lead to a situation where were going to get milder disease and may even get out of pandemic. but you dont want to get there by de...

Holiday surge although the less severe omicron may mean fewer hospital visits. people looking to get tested are still finding long lines and delays getting results. this comes as thousands of travelers nationwide additional flight delays. and president biden criticism for saying there is no federal solution for is popping the sto. rehoboth beach traveling with the president who kept to himself. mike tobin at airport where flight cancellation and delays travelers trying to return home from the ho...

Secure 500 million at home tests to send americans free. though some governors worry that plan may hamper their plans to buy kits. >> the production of 500 million rapid tests that will be districted by the federal government but obviously that drives up the supply chain for the solutions that we might offer as governor. >> with more at home testing kits, there are concerns among health officials americans will refuse to share positive tests with local governments. meaning they may miss the full...

Coordinator there is no accountability. >> bret: criticism is building for the biden administration on the issue of covid. something that he obviously ran on as a candidate to get leecketted. back with the panel. harold, how big a problem politically is this about the testing and about where we are with what the administration has done so far? >> well, this is a shortcoming. we should have more tests. i listened to the previous speaker there. and he is right. i do think those who are being criti...

States. reports that the bruins defensive line hit hard by covid. bret? >> bret: steve harrigan live in atlanta. thanks. tough for people who traveled out there for football game. with new years eve around the corner, speaking of travel. holiday travel troubles not letting up. hundreds more flights canceled today on top of the thousands rounded since christmas eve. some airlines are blaming staffing shortages in part on the omicron variant. senior correspondent mike tobin is live at chicago ohar...

The workforce by the rapid spread of omicron. >> the staffing shortages are certainly driving part of this. but there is science to indicate that infectious period is toward the beginning of when you are sick and often before you are tom is a. >> there is no requirement to test again after isolation ends. with tests in short supply people are waiting hours in lines or try to find home test kits for sale. >> i have been to seven pharmacies today and probably 8 yesterday just looking for the at ho...

You are seeing a lot more long term effects of covid. long covid. you are not seeing that with the flu. the flu tends to hit younger people more. you see more very sick children and teens with the flu. so we have got take the flu very seriously. >> bret: yeah, you know, i talk to a lot of folks in and around the country and there is just this sense of fatigue about covid. like they are just so sick of it especially now with omicron, possibly being less severe. there are some people that say why ...

Now the omicron variant. more than double the percentage of just one week ago. omicron has been more contagious but less lethal than delta. some medical warn the worst is still ahead. >> most of us are concerned there will be, over most of the country, a surge of cases and consequence hospitalization because of all of that mixing and reunion in getting together closely. we anticipate seeing that in the beginning of the new year. >> record case loads set this week in new york, new jersey, massach...