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>> cnn correspondent leyla santiago joins us now from miami and governor ron desantis is giving himself accolades now for his handling of the pandemic. what do the numbers in the state of florida show us? >> reporter: well, let's look at south florida, for example, jim and bianna. you talk to the mayor of miami-dade and she will point out the seven-day positivity rate here is 35%. that's pretty high when you look at the rest of the pandemic and where that rate has stood. i spoke it a doctor from florida atlantic university who told me it is too soon to sort of throw in the towel or in any way ...

Like new york. cnn's paolo sandoval reports. >> reporter: this weekend the state of newark health department issuing a temporary order putting a stop to all unessential elective procedures. the goal here according to health officials to help alleviate what they're describing as limited bed capacity amid this ongoing omicron surge throughout the country here as new york just the latest to -- in a race to try to help their health care facilities with staff and supply shortages including at the university of kansas health care system where the chief medical officer told cnn over the weekend they ...

Bed capacity has hit 80% in over 20 states. the new supreme court ruling makes it harder for the government to ensure people don't show up at work actively contagious. the biden administration had a testing or vaccine mandate for long companies which was just blocked by the court, even amidst this surge. the case was not about requiring vaccination, because anyone could just get tested to go to work. critics say the court's conservative wing is now showing an alarming embrace of the right-wing culture war against vaccination. we're joined by "the new york times" michelle goldberg. michelle, yo...

Children under age 5 are in hospitals, infected with the coronavirus. and the numbers you see there represent the number of kids under the age of 5 per 100,000 in the population who are hospitalized. and with the facilities scrambling to deal with the new admissions of all ages, the omicron variant is disrupting the delivery of routine health care in places like new york. cnn's polo sandoval has more. >> this weekend, the state of new york's health department issuing a temporary order, putting a stop to all non-urgent, non-essential elective procedures throughout about 40 facilities located ma...

That. so we've learned that the time to really ratchet up mitigation or even to consider shutting down parts of our, you know, businesses is when our hospitals are packed. and a few weeks ago there were about 250 counties in the united states that had no bed capacity. now that number is less than a fifth of that. so we're really moving in the right direction. a colleague from across the country today suggested to me that, you know, perhaps we should start to look in terms of the overall viral threat, compared to influenza. in an average year influenza kills somewhere between 30,000 and 60,000 ...