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Quarantines and a push for boosters for kids. let's bring a correspondent dan springer, he joins us from seattle with the details. good evening, dan. >> hi, gillian, covid-19 cases are surging across the country as infections are hitting all-time highs in the cdc doesn't even have the most up-to-date numbers because for three days over the holiday weekend, there wasn't apparently anybody in the massive agency to update the covid tracker. still the worst is expected in the next few weeks. covid-19 cases led by the omicron variant have soared to new records in the u.s. on december 29th, there we...

Landing in hong kong, chan was in an ambulance. his luggage left at the airport. he tested positive for the omicron variant. even without symptoms, his minimum hospital stay is nearly a month. do you worry about your mental health as these days turn into weeks? >> yeah, absolutely because i've never been in a situation like this before. >> in general there is increased sense of isolation, anxiety, and in some severe cases, even posttraumatic stress. >> reporter: hong kong psychiatrist dr. elizabeth wong says longer quarantines can be traumatic. >> we have a lot of changes between the 7 days,...

Thankfully, hospitalization rates per cases right now are much lower than we have seen in prior waives. he also could have come down on the fda about expediting getting these antivirals to the market. the fda has been sitting on them. they have up to 90% ability to keep people out of the hospital if they are given early on in the course of disease. he could have talked about removing cloth masks for children. come down hard on the schools that are close and keeping children out of school again and he eliminated quarantines and reduce the post infection. all of this would have been much more he...

That might kind of neutralize the positive effect of having less severity when you have so many more people -- >> and starting tomorrow workers in new york city are required to get vaccinated. if workers don't, if workers don't have at least one shot they will be put on unpaid leave. so dr. nicole saphier, you had a christmas wish that you tweeted out. did you get everything that you wanted for christmas? had a number of things on that list, vaccines to targeted high-risk people, masks for those at risk, shortening time for isolation. eliminating expanded quarantines and more. did you get any ...

To 5,000 omicron cases, it took 20 days. for delta, which was super contagious, it took closer to 70 days. 75 days to get to that same number. so, you know, you get an idea of just how much more contagious. people are going to get exposed. people are going to test positive as a result of those exposures. even the vaccinated. that's going to interfere with -- there will be quarantines and all sorts of things that result from that. >> the cdc updated its guidance to allow kids exposed to covid to test rather than forcing them to stay home for a ten-day quarantine. do you agree with that? >> well...