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teachers at the end of may. and new details about what the 77 minutes of school hallway surveillance video shows. plus, a new covid variant spreading at an alarming rate throughout the united states, and this one is not deterred even by recent infections. so how do the vaccines hold up against it? welcome to "the lead." i'm jake tapper. we start with our politics lead and members of the january 6th select house committee now publicly suggesting they will use tomorrow's hearing to draw direct links between the extremist groups who stormed the u.s. capitol and have been charged wit...

Terms of case positivity, in terms of number of cases, hospitalizations. and those deaths, even though they're 300, 400, that's more than 100,000 deaths annually, which is two or three-times our worst flu season. this is still a significant and killer illness. we need to take it seriously. from my view, the two biggest problems and gaps right now, not nearly enough people have gotten the booster. the reason you need to do that -- you have to get boosted anyway. after about five months after your last boost, the protection against hospitalization starts to wane, as well. you might get infection...

Are still full of patients who are hospitalized with covid means we're not quite ready. we'll probably end up as you mentioned with the case positivity or rate being in the 20-ish range for when we can start lowering restrictions. but we also have to keep into account that a lot of places have hospitals that are completely full. so even then it might take time for the hospitalizations to go down so that we're ready for any sicker patients who come in. >> to that point you make a key point. how much of this should be guided from washington and how much of it should be left to local decisions be...

Hospital situation looks like in every community. right now, there are about 250 counties in the united states with no hospital bed capacity. and as the wave of omicron sort of declines in the united states, and it will do it in a way coming from the northeast toward the south, we'll be able to open up. cases in new york city and washington, d.c. have declined since the peak, at the early part of january, by about 85%. case positivity rates in new york are down from 10% last week to 5% today. so things are moving very quickly. and places like new york and d.c. may be able to drop more restrict...

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