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A demand for it. >> reporter: there's a disturbing number out tonight: one study says up to 80% of floridians will have caught covid-19 by the time this omicron wave is over. to ease demand at testing sites like this one, the white house and u.s. postal service are set to be finalizing plans to mail testing kits to u.s. households as early as next week. norah. >> o'donnell: that 80% number is stunning. manuel bojorquez, thank you. well, tonight, in a test of presidential powers, the supreme court is weighing arguments over the biden administration's covid vaccine rules for large companies and ...

Omicron that you can't be infected with another variant that is yet to surface. >> got you. >> the most important thing is to prevent cases. >> right, exactly, and really quickly, we've got about ten seconds left, stacy. what is the one thing that will get teachers and students in the classroom from your perspective? >> leadership and partnership, so far it has been incompetent leadership that has gotten us to this place. look, everyone wants this to work. our member are mothers, our members are mothers of chicago public school students. we want this to work. it's deeply frustrating and it's b...

Some good news on the spread of omicron. cases are falling in early hotspots like new york and new jersey. that is the good news. now here's the bad news. it could be weeks before the country itself hits the peak of the omicron surge, as public health experts warn not all parts of the country are on the same timeline. >> the challenge is that the entire country isn't moving at the same pace. the omicron wave started later in other parts of the country. we shouldn't expect a national peak in the coming days. the next few weeks will be tough. >> as a result, hospitals around the country are scal...

Year's eve revelers in the united states to keep their parties small, maybe outdoors, just have one glass of champagne, bourbon or beer or however many you want maybe at home though is what they're saying. the surge is crushing hospitals and doctors are describing packed emergency rooms already. dr. anthony fauci predicts the omicron wave could peak in the united states by the end of january. the u.s. is hitting a seven-day average of more than 355,000 new cases with record case counts in new jersey, new york, arkansas, and chicago. pediatric hospital admissions a big concern for parents every...

One, population immunity. that is because it spread so fast within the population, some developed natural infection. two, numbers have been inching up in south africa. those two reasons. many scientists in south africa feel confident enough they think south africa has surpassed the peak of the omicron wave. that is largely because of the precipitous drop in daily case numbers in the epicenter. that is in the province of haoteng. this is a positive scientific they have warned. there is a caveat here. it is still too early to tell. they might need a bit more time. we have a month's worth of data...