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Playing on parental love for their children. it's terrible. >> ben: um-huh. you know, one of the things that we have seen across this country has been that these areas that have the most severe approaches that take on, you know, a lot of political character to them are also ones that have seen recent case counts spike not just for kids but for adults, of course in washington and new york city i believe we have the numbers for those, we have seen these spikes of late, despite the fact that both cities have obviously used some very, you know, aggressive and restrictionist policies toward the way...

We really need to change our mindset and stop focusing on daily new case counts. as we know the virus is everywhere. it is impressive how highly transmissible and contagious this is. what is more important at this point is how many people are being hospitalized and how many people are dying from this virus. and while there is still a very high number, unfortunately what we haven't been able to do throughout the entire course of this pandemic is have true figures a good idea of which people are in the hospital because of covid and be which people are in the hospital for various other reasons wh...

Them. >> doctor, thanks for being with us and a happy new year to you. >> thank you. happy new year to you. thank you. still ahead, eye popping omicron case counts could throw a wrench into next week's back to school plans. around 30 0 u.s. schools planning to stay closed after winter break. i'll talk to an administrator about concerns he's hearing. first the state of emergency in colorado. hundreds of homes burned by wildfires. tens of thousands of people evacuated. we are on the ground in boulder county with a look at all that devastation. that's next. that devastation. that's next. as a...

Welcome back to our viewers here in the united states and around the world. i'm john vause. you're watching "cnn newsroom." another day of record high covid infections for many european countries. the uk, ireland, greece, spain, italy. among the nations reporting their highest daily case count ever. cnn has the latest from london. >> reporter: amid skyrocketing infection rates and record breaking case counts, britain's national health service says it is now on a war footing. it's preparing plans for a potential wave of omicron patients. the national health service say thing is no time to wait....

New cases per day have more than doubled over the past two weeks, eclipsing the old mark of 250,000, set in mid-January.