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Overwhelm. >> reporter: vaccinations will protect most from serious illness, but the covid task force emphasized the clinical need for boosters as omicron evades some larls of protections, scientists are worried about what will evolve next. >> we are concerned were one or two medications away from not having effective vaccines or monoclonal antibody therapies. >> reporter: many hospitals on a break, and taking a toll on nurses with a new study showing 1 in 5 plan to quit the profession. >> were ...

Indicator in terms of how well we are coping with this epidemic. and we see quite a significant surge of hospitalisations in london, the region which is most ahead, but less of an indication in other regions. one bit of good news is that the booster programme really has accelerated this week. we were up to nearly 900,000 boosters given yesterday and that has almost doubled in the matter of the few days and everything we can do to boost immunity in the population is going to be good news going fo...

Masks, then make sure that people are tested that same day. if youre unable to get that test, people should be wearing masks indoors. i think we can take these commonsense precautions and still gather together with our loved ones coming this holiday. >> dr. gorelick, we heard from jason carroll in dearborn, michigan, talking about the hospital system there being stressed. youre in the middle of whats already a winter wave and what could be -- a sign coming to the rest of the country. hospitaliza...

Coming up, covid-19 cases are surging right now here in the united states. how overwhelmed are hospitals that are trying to prepare for another winter wave? . (other money manager) different how? dont you just ride the wave? (judith) no - we actively manage client portfolios based on our forward-looking views of the market. (other money manager) but you still sell investments that generate high commissions, right? (judith) no, we dont sell commission products. were a fiduciary, obligated to act ...

Guess about the impact of hospitalisations from this new variant. they say the peak of this wave, driven by omicron, could reach between 1000 or is highly likely to between 1000 or is highly likely to be higher than 1000 to 2000 omicron admissions per day at some point, probably injanuary admissions per day at some point, probably in january without admissions per day at some point, probably injanuary without new probably in january without new restrictions put in place to stop this way. they al...

>> i want to bring in now andy slavitt. hes a former biden white house senior adviser for covid response. hes also the author of "preventable: the inside story of how leadership failures, politics, and selfishness doomed the u.s. coronavirus response." andy, good to see you in person. >> good to be here, don. >> thank you for joining us. president biden is laying out his plan to fight the winter wave of covid. hes focusing on vaccines and tes tes testing. weve been in this pandemic for 21 months...

Selfishness, doomed the united states coronavirus response." good to see you. president biden is laying out his plan to fight the winter wave of covid focusing on vaccines and testing. weve been in this pandemic for 21 months. >> hard to believe. i was asking in the break how long were we in our homes? >> well, the difference today, don, versus last year in much of the 21 months is we have a large array of tools. what the president announced today that well have at-home tests available for free ...

Know consumer demand is up, were shopping, were traveling. when we got that news on friday and you had countries like the united states and other countries start to put in some sort of travel bans, the market got worried. well, today as were learning more, as it doesnt seem like this variant is as serious as people may have suspected, youre seeing the market come back. >> so dom, it doesnt look like covid, however, is going to go away soon, just having talked to, you know, doctors on this. they ...

Happened in our delta wave over the summer, since june 1, chris, weve lost -- i calculate 150,000 unvaccinated americans to covid-19, since june 1, 2021, 150,000 unvaccinated americans needlessly lost their lives because they were defiant, and this is going to continue now with this new winter wave, whether its delta or omicron. i do think theres going to be a lot of spillover. id say just the last point, and ill just mention it and you can decide if you want to talk about it further is the bide...

0 reports." andrea is on assignment. im chris jansing. were following that breaking news from the white house. president biden addressing the nation this hour after a second meeting with his covid response team in just two days. highlighting the urgency the administration is feeling to learn everything they can about the concerning new coronavirus variant omicron with confirmed cases already at our northern aborter in ontario, canada. there are still a number of things we dont know about this va...