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Let us look at the official data. the number of daily coronavirus cases has risen for the first time in a week. the latest official figures show there were 29,312 new cases in the latest 24—hour period. last wednesday there were under 28,000. 119 deaths were recorded in the past 2a hours. that's an average of 81 deaths a day in the past week. the number of people in hospital with covid seems to have levelled off atjust under 6000. almost 89% of uk adults have now had their firstjab. and nearly 73.2% are now fully vaccinated. it's been a record—breaking day for team gb at the olympic games ...

As more omicron cases pop up around the country; however, the decision to make it and what's behind it for the cdc director to say it had to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. let's start there. let's bring in our panel, mollie hemingway senior editor at "the federalist." charles lane opinion writer for "the washington post" and "the washington post" columnist marc thiessen. i guess that perked up my ears. marc, listening to following the science for so long. >> yeah. no, i mean, honestly, we would have been better off in this if the cdc didn't exist. it's been a disaste...

Best to protect them as well as ourselves. it is stunning how quickly this has moved. not even a month has passed since we first heard about omicron. look what's happened in the past couple of weeks. less than 1% of new cases were only krofnlt week ending december 11th that jump to 12.6 and now 73.2% so in two weeks it went from almost nothing to being almost three-quarters of the new cases in the united states. now, let's take a look at where it's even higher than 73%. there are pockets in the southeast as well as in the northwest where it's actually -- omicron is actually 95% of new cases so...

Wow. >> reporter: it is a wow. you and i were sitting here not even a month ago that omicron was even named. it hasn't even been with us for a whole month. take a look at what's happened in the past two weeks. if you look at the week ending december 4th, omicron was 0.7% of all new cases in the united states. most of the rest was delta. december 11th, it crept up to 12.6%. the week ending december 18th, 73.2%. that's a huge jump in just two weeks. it's even more than 73% in certain parts of the country. in the north west as well as the southeast in 12 states it's more than 95%. that's just how...