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The board for the ten-day standard. the reason they're doing that is we're facing a real crunch at a lot of hospitals who h are short on health care workers already and are fayes a potential wave of cases. the jury is out on how many cases there will be with omicron in the hospital. if you're sitting there without symptoms, illness, concontagion they're running out of health care workers. they're saying if you're vaccinated, your isolation period doesn't have to be as long. >> the president heads to delaware for the rest of the week through new year's, but he's going to join the covid-19 regul...

Parts of the united states are filling up fast with nearly 800 children being admitted with covid each day over the past three days. plus, hospitals are facing a new potential wave of cases, with fewer staff on hand. according to the bureau of labor statistics, about 450,000 health care workers have left the industry since february of 2020, and the highly infectious omicron variant is threatening to exacerbate those staff shortages even more. the cdc has now issued new nines saying that doctors and nurses who test positive for covid-19 but are asymptomatic can return to work after seven days w...

Museums and put restrictions on night life to try to get the virus under control. >> reporter: everyone here is asking will there be a lockdown before christmas. over the weekend, british scientific advisers warning tougher measures are needed to slow a potential wave of hospitalizations due to the omicron variant. the london mayor declaring a major incident in the city over the weekend and saying further restrictions were inevitable. and the deputy prime minister saying there's no hard and fast guarantees that tougher rules won't come into force before the end of the holiday season. england's...

>> for the unvaccinated, you're looking at a winter of severe illness and death for yourselves, your families and the hospitals you may soon overwhelm. >> reporter: vaccinations will protect most from serious illness. but today the covid task force emphasized the critical need for boosters as omicron evades some layers of protection, scientists are worried about what will evolve next. >> we are concerned that we are one or two mutations away from not having effective vaccines or monoclonal antibody therapies. >> reporter: with many hospitals already on the brink, ohio's governor is sending in ...

Overwhelm. >> reporter: vaccinations will protect most from serious illness, but the covid task force emphasized the clinical need for boosters as omicron evades some larls of protections, scientists are worried about what will evolve next. >> we are concerned we're one or two medications away from not having effective vaccines or monoclonal antibody therapies. >> reporter: many hospitals on a break, and taking a toll on nurses with a new study showing 1 in 5 plan to quit the profession. >> we're tired. the hospitals are stretched. resilience is low. please, get vaccinated. >> i think we're lo...