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Officials, hospitalizations and deaths are rising but at a significantly slower pace than positive cases. mimics what we have seen from the omicron variant overseas. we have fox team coverage on this tonight. mike tobin is in chicago where it appears remote learning is likely going to make a comeback there but we begin tonight with correspondent steve harrigan in atlanta, again, the home of the cdc. good evening, steve. >> good evening, bret. if you do have covid, should you isolate for five days or 10 days? when it comes to the new cases are 23% okay krohn or 73% omicron. in short the numbers...

The weekend celebrating christmas and 60th birthday behind bars in federal prison. she has not yet learned when she will officially be sentenced. obviously a big push by some of the people in the courtroom to get this moving along, especially with the sentencing due to covid concerns. it could be they are going to want that to move along as well for the sentencing. >> but it's just going to have to wait and see how this plays out here in federal court, bret. >> bret: okay. alexis mcadams outside the courthouse. alexis, thanks. ♪ >> bret: also breaking tonight new covid-19 case rates hit reco...

In the upper airways. there's nothing about vaccination that prevents that from happening. what's clearly true, as time goes on and more of the population has been infected or has been vaccinated, is that our immune resistance against infection and against severity of symptoms is going up. one of the things that the authorities are clearly reacting to is the fact that while hospitalisation rates are going up relatively slowly relative to case rates, case rates are climbing at a very high rate. and so, there's both a pressure to react, but also an awareness that very likely our immune systems a...

From ten to five days. officials insist this is being guided by the science. so, why is this step being taken now? we put that question to david edwards, an aerosol scientist and a harvard university professor and bioengineer. i think i understand the logic. it's important for people to understand that the omicron variant, like previous variants, infects us initially in the upper airways. there's nothing about vaccination that prevents that from happening. what's cleary true, as time goes on and more of the population has been infected or has been vaccinated, is that our immune resistance agai...

I think understand the logic. it's important for people to understand that the omicron variant, like previous variants, infects us initially in the upper airways. there's nothing about vaccination that prevents that happening. what's cleary true, as time goes on and more of the population has been infected or has been vaccinated, is that our immune resistance against infection and against severity of symptoms is going up. one of the things that the authorities are clearly reacting to is the fact that while hospitalisation rates are going up relatively slowly relative to case rates, case rates ...