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Square celebration is scaled back this year with only about a fourth of the usual crowd being al howard to attend. cities have limited festivities or cancelled them all together and the u.s. ends 2021 like it entered it, with surging covid infections. the u.s. averaging nearly 356,000 cases a day extending the longest streak. the faa may be forced to cancel flights because of their owning crews being sick. pediatric hospital admissions in the u.s. are at record highs. on average 378 children were admitted to the hospital with covid-19 on any given day over the week that ended tuesday. that's a...

Things will likely get worse as the omicron variant spreads across the u.s. the nation broke records twice this week for the seven-day average of new daily covid-19 cases. now, one doctor is warning this latest wave is unlike anything we've seen before. while hospitalizations and deaths are lower than their 2021 peak, the cdc predicts that more than 44,000 people could die of covid-19 in the next four weeks. and now, with the millions prepared to return to work and school, there are concerns that the number of new infections will rise further. cnn's polo sandoval reports. >> reporter: the u.s....

Descriptions and a grim warning, things will likely get worse as the omicron variant spreads across the united states. the nation broke records twice this week for the seven-day average of new daily covid-19 cases, which remained at an all-time high of 356,000 new daily infections on thursday. meanwhile, the faa says staffing shortages caused by covid-19 infections could lead to even more flight cancellations. more than 11,000 flights have been scrapped since christmas eve, including more than 1,000 today and tomorrow. but none of those are the result of faa issues. now with millions prepared ...

>> as those case numbers grow higher, one consequence is clear. right now more kids are hospitalized with covid-19 than ever before. cnn's polo sandoval joins me now from new york city. polo, health experts say the times square new year's eve celebration could come back to haunt the city. so how is new york gearing up amid the omicron surge? >> paula, those health officials have been warning that the current explosion in covid numbers is something that they have never seen before. in fact, four times this week the nation broke its own record when it comes to the daily number of new covid cases...

Teachers in federal head start early education programs to be vaccinated against covid. the ruling is considered a victory for the 24 states that sued the biden administration. meanwhile the surge in the omicron variant of the coronavirus shows no signs of slowing down. cbs' mark strassmann has more. >> reporter: a new year in our covid chronicles, welcomed by super-spreader jamboree. risky behavior, even reckless -- reckless, like many new year's resolutions, covid records get broken daily. the speed at which omicron is spreading is staggering. take these jarring u.s. numbers; a new average o...