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As we head for a new year to begin, health officials on a national, state, and local level are all holding their breaths, wondering what impact holiday gatherings will have on COVID-19 case numbers and if hospitals will see a dangerous influx of new cases.
Lost as we've covered breakthrough cases there is still a very, very sizable difference in risk and exposure in just transmission. it is particularly true of serious illness. covid specifically the omicron variant is ripping through the northeast right now. look at those charts. like it did when it first arrived in the kourn. we don't have apples to apples comparisons because we didn't have the testing infrastructure back then.chd these are charts of cases by state. the red line being the state number straight up hockey stick stuff.k new york, maryland, new jersey. puerto rico one of the most ...
Covid safety measures, could reduce the spread of among kids. others are not convinced. >> what we will see is once children go back to school, within a week or two of schools opening is when we will see highest numbers. >> reporter: amid the winter weather, the pandemic is roaring across the country. with over a quarter million new cases diagnosed daily. >> it's a game changer in terms of its high transmistransmissio. >> reporter: hospitalizations are half of what they were last winter. among vaccinated, medical workers with breakthrough cases. they are being sent home when demand is sooaring...
Change will only increase the spread of the virus. cnn's tom foreman starts us off with a closer look at what all this might mean for you and your family as we head into a new year. >> reporter: amid the winter weather, the pandemic is roaring across the country with an average of more than 200,000 new cases diagnosed daily. >> this omicron variant is such a game changer in terms of its high, high transmissibility. it's like this big virus blizzard. >> reporter: hospitalizations are only about half of what they were last winter, but some states are seeing peaks there, too, including among vacc...
Massachusetts health officials on Tuesday reported more than 20,000 new breakthrough COVID cases over the past week and 70 more deaths.