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The last few years during the pandemic and preceding the pandemic and now exacerbated by staff illness, by staff getting covid and having to isolate for ten days. so our hospitals are still under great pressure right now. i'm very encouraged that case counts are dropping now in this area unmistakably. >> that is a positive sign. i'll preface this question by noting the obvious, and that is that i don't believe you are a legal analyst, but you are a health expert. from that perspective, i'd love to get your reaction to what we heard from the supreme court yesterday blocking the administration's...

>> deaths remain low in comparison to the case counts. >> reporter: not only are more people getting covid, more are being infected for a second time. researchers in england spoke with 3,500 covid-positive people this month two-thirds reported having either a suspected or confirmed case before. here in new york, about 80% of reported reinfections have been during the omicron wave they're also up in minnesota and washington state, but notably some 60% of so-called second-timers there were unvaccinated. in illinois, brian kuhns first got covid in march of 2020 he spent weeks on a ventilator and ...

A period of stability as case counts go down, but i think we are going to need a regular yearly booster that will keep people protected as they prepare for winter, and that's what we're planning to do and what we are aiming to do with the study that we've launched now. stay with us on bbc news. still to come: borisjohnson denies he personally ordered the airlift of animals out of afghanistan. however, emails from officials suggest otherwise. this is the moment that millions in iran have been waiting for. after his long years in exile, the first hesitant steps of ayatollah khomeini on iranian s...

Transmissible, but we didn't ramp up our testing capacity. >> reporter: reasons to be cheerful, west virginia's governor is feeling better saying, without question, the fact that i chose to get vaccinated and boosted saved my life. that's all there is to it. and this was the map beginning of last week. cases rising rapidly almost everywhere except maine. today there's a lot less deep red. most of the northeast looking better. >> i'm very encouraged that case counts are dropping now in this area unmistakably. >> reporter: still nationwide averaging nearly 800,000 new infections every day. there...

In vaccination rates and hospital capacity. let me show you what i mean here. obviously, look at these numbers. a huge peak a year ago, averaging 250,000 cases a day. right now omicron, just a gigantic 780,000 cases a day. but we're handling this much better. why? there's really one big reason. 63% of the country is fully vaccinated. a year ago we didn't have that kind of vaccination rate. overall, by the way, nationally, 83% of icu beds are in use. obviously, with the coastal cities hit first with icron, the vaccination rates in the coastal cities are higher than 63% and hospital capacity is ...