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Given the drop-offs in places like new york and washington, d.c.? >> in some places like the cities you just named that may be the case. the united states is huge and there are parts of the united states that are just beginning to feel the omicron pain. let's illustrate what dr. murthy just said. look at the united states. we were looking at this map last week, nearly all dark red. dark red is a dramatic increase. plenty of yellow, which is steady or green where it is going down. let's look specifically at new york. new york in january were seeing 85,000 new cases per day. yesterday was number...

Masking, testing and vaccines, kids should be in school. that the academic, psychological and emotional damage done during remote learning was too substantial and there are ways to safely go back to school. students in milwaukee, atlanta and cleveland, however, are going back to school remotely this week. the cdc keeps saying, kids should be in person. listen to what one mom told cnn's gabe cohen. >> every time we talks about school, he gets anxiety. worried about omicron. worried about courses. worried about social life. it's a lot for a 16-year-old to handle. >> there are going to be some ve...

. this is a very difficult time during the surge. we're seeing high hospital rates as you mentioned and a strain in many hospitals around the country. the good news is there are parts of the country, new york in particular and parts of the northeast wrewhere we're starting to see a plateau and early decline. the entire country is not moving at the same pace. omicron started later in other parts of the country. the next few weeks will be tough. >> as the number of daily covid 189 cases tops 800,000 nationwide, that was u.s. surgeon general murthy warning we have not yet hit the omicron peek. ...

Risky to doing something prematurely. >> reporter: soon every state except hawaii will drop their indoor mask mandates. new york state says it won't enforce a booster mandate for health care workers because of staffing shortages. while both the governors of california and utah say they're shifting to an endemic approach to coronavirus. colorado's governor says the focus should be on vaccinations, not mandates. >> as long as we are stuck in this dichotomy of mandate versus no mandate, there's a lot of americans of all persuasions that react very negatively, rightfully so, to being told they're ...

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