Screaming Level News Today

first in uvalde, families of loved ones that killed 19 children and two teachers are mourning in that community. an investigation into what exactly went wrong. why didnt officers get into that school and confront the gunman much faster? heres how a texas lawmaker described his conversation with one little girls father. the. >> reporter: their little girl had been shot in the back with one bullet through the kidney area. she likely bled out, according to the first responder. who is to k...

Spreading the virus. now individuals are getting paxlovid as well, and were starting to see rebound with that as well. its still a complicated situation. the bottom line is do that full isolation period and dont chance it and infect others. >> give us a reality check for those going on later today, whether its a picnic in the park outdoors or whether theyre going to be doing something else. what is your advice to people who are going to be in crowds over the next 24 hours or so? >> the risk situ...

Will be so many people who are being isolated who are asymptomatic for the full ten days that you could have a major negative impact on our ability to keep society running. >> reporter: new cases skyrocketing to numbers never seen before, but deaths and hospitalizations, key indications at this moment are not climbing as quickly. >> are we seeing lower hospitalization rates because omicron is -- or lower hospitalization rates because we do have a considerable amount of the population that is vac...

Is so much more transmissible. talking about the virus with measles transmission. when you try to do this in the throes of this screaming level of transmission testing and contract tracing become problematic, you have teachers, bus drivers with breakthrough covid infections. the question is when you have so many staff and teachers and bus drivers and everyone you need to support the school, the cafeteria workers out, can you run the school? that becomes a big issue as well and as we skuszed ther...

-- trans mmissibility is like e measles. if you go online, that goes again the surgeon generals message about mental health. they wont have personal contact, or even meals. with this screaming level of transmission, its going to be really, really tough not only for the students but the teachers, staff and bus drivers, many of them will have to call out sick because of breakthrough covid. i think it will be really challenging to get through the school year. i cant fault school administrators eith...

And have ptsd because im the bearer of such bad news so often but it is truly heartbreaking at times. >> yeah, we have to talk about it because this latest surge is throwing schools back into chaos, doctor. youre in houston where the school district is cancelling classes tomorrow as cases rise in the community. can temporary closures like this help stop the spread? are kids safer being in school? >> i think what is happening tomorrow is its supposed to be a teachers day and school will be back o...

First of all, how long is it going to last? would there be benefit in just delaying it another two weeks in order to -- while theres this screaming level of transmission and being able to make it up in the summer or at the back end of the school year so that the length of time the kids in school doesnt change. point number two, we know what the risk of hospitalization and death is, but what we dont hear is what the risk of the more subtle morbidities are. what about long covid? the great orman s...

Codirector of texas childrens hospital for vaccine development. so good to have you on. look, i love having you on. im looking forward to the day i dont have you on or youre on and were talking about something else. is that fair? are you okay with that? >> yeah, don, im worried a year from now the country will see me and have ptsd because im the bearer of such bad news so often but it is truly heartbreaking at times. >> yeah, we have to talk about it because this latest surge is throwing schools...

Down to 3 micrograms in the under 5. and for the 2 to 4-year-olds, it just wasnt as immunogenic as needed to induce a strong immune response in the 2 to 4-year-old so we knew it was going to be three dose for a while but i think there was additional data that gave some optimism. "the washington post" is reporting that last night a tranche of data came in that said no, you know, the two doses really arent going to -- arent giving enough of an immune response to make people feel comfortable. theyl...

The same time. similarly, its also going to start going down probably sooner in new york and washington. so the hope is that if it is a very spiky peak that goes up quickly, down quickly, then washington, d.c. and new york will benefit from that, so towards the last half of january it will start to go down. but it still may be climbing in other parts of the country. >> one of the biggest factors that could be dictating these waves is what happens in schools. the fda is reportedly planning to all...