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Underreporting. crucially, it is the underlying trend we need to look at, week on week, and cases are up about 61%, but hospital admissions are up a lot less, 6%, week on week. they tend to be a bit of a lagging indicator. it is two which are more from when someone test positive that they are likely to need hospital treatment. the other important fact about hospital admissions is that they are very much concentrated in london in terms of a surge in covid. 1800 patients in hospital, up 500, nearl...

Who test positive. as you know, there is a real testing bottleneck. so we need to solve that problem first. >> reporter: omicron is now confirmed in all 50 states, but there is good news. three early studies now adding to the evidence it may be less likely to cause severe disease. still, experts warn its too early to say for sure. >> its dangerous business to be able to rely on what you perceive as a lower degree of severity. >> reporter: doctors fear even if omicron is milder than delta, the hu...

Fema to set up six new pop-up testing sites here in new york city. those opened last week. president biden promised today that more are actually coming. but here is the question. will it be enough to help contain this variant? joining us now is dr. dave chokshi. doctor, great to have you with us and thank you for joining us tonight. theres a lot to cover here, a lot of new ground we are talking about. but lets start with today. the cdc shortening the length of isolation for those who test positi...

Americas epidemic of gun violence. multiple people killed in d denver, colorado. well tell you how police say it unfolded. so the u.s. is now averaging nearly 200,000 new covid infections each and every day. but thats not stopping the centers for disease control from cutting the isolation time for people who test positive. heres whats happening. the cdc now recommends isolating for five days, rather than ten, as long as a person has no symptoms. and heres the thing. you have to wear a mask for t...

Told and believed, he could have done great damage to the officers, fatally wounding one of them if they had not acted in the manner they did. >> what is next in the investigation? what is the process? >> so, state investigators will get involved now because there was a fatality. theyll do their findings. they need to be transparent and accurate and move quickly here. a prosecutor at the state ags office and local prosecutors will sit down and make a determination whether to put the case in fron...

Realtime. the cdc can only provide estimates based on the data they have available. and when they have new data, they react accordingly. that is what the cdc has been trying to do as we all work to combat this pandemic with the ground constantly, constantly shifting underneath us. that is the job. yesterday the cdc published another update, this time to guidance for people who test positive for covid, specifically on how long they have to isolate themselves. now, the cdc now says that as long as...

Isolation. those new guidelines say people who test positive for covid but have no symptoms isolate for five days, thats down from the previous recommendation of ten and then they should continue to wear a mask for an additional five. dr. anthony fauci said this is a smart decision. here he is on this network last night. >> the sheer volume and number of cases with omicron, which is very much more transmissible than prior variants, we dont want to get into a situation where so many people are ou...

On our health care resources. >> miguel, thank you so much for that reporting. sources tell cnn that the cdc will be clarifying the guidance as soon as today on the recommended isolation period for people who test positive for covid. the agency has faced real questions over the update for not including the testing component, one that shortened the isolation from ten days to five. joining me is chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta. it does sound like the clarification is coming quite so...

>> reporter: how does it make you feel that they are taking care of you? >> very safe. >> reporter: and among these people who have been so very sick, a feel of american patriotism. >> it is the best country in the world. >> reporter: the best country in the world, he says. the national guard troops are expected to be at the hospital, scheduled to be at the hospital until january 11th, only six days from now. but that could be extended if there is a need. john, there is a very good chance there ...

Is to say probably within the next couple of days we are going to break the record during the entire pandemic of people hospitalized with covid. now, as i talked to folks on the front line what they tell me is that its not an issue of available beds, its not equipment, its not medication, its people. here in south florida baptist health is one of the largest providers, they have 500 people out right now with covid-19. thats not a massive portion of their workforce, its about 3% or 4%, but when y...