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And had unique identifier related to omicron that will now be fully sequenced. we do believe a large portion of these student cases will ultimately summit as the omicron variant. >> so let me read part of the statement that cornell released. cornell's extensive surveillance testing yesterday uncovered the likelierly and rapid spread of the omicron variant of s sars-cov-2 among the student population. the variant now accounts for a very high percentage of the covid-19 cases, every case of the omicron variant to date have been found in vaccinated students, a portion of whom also received a boost...

Vaccinated by december 15th, tomorrow. did this surge of over 900 cases at cornell university come as a surprise to you? >> i think we certainly expected additional cases as we moved through the holiday season, and we've begun to relax public health guidance over the last several months. but certainly the volume of cases was something that came a bit unexpected. >> the university declared a covid-19 omicron red alert. please tell me what that means, sir. >> so the university made decisions about moving their finals, their remaining finals to remote status, and they've canceled some on-campus e...

The Indiana Department of Health added 2,888 COVID-19 cases to the state's total Wednesday, raising it to 959,409. The cases were confirmed Sept. 28. There were 65 confirmed COVID-19 deaths reported, raising the state's total to 15,132. The deaths occurred between Aug. 25 and Sept. 28.

Largest school districts with another 30,000 quarantined. you can look at mississippi. they have quarantined over 20,000 with 6,000 kids being positive and thirteen deaths are rising. and when we are mentioning these numbers, i think we have to remember we're talking about people. we're talking about kids, mikaila robison, an eighth grader, died just days after school started. her life meant something. if we look at the cases now versus 2020 when we started schools we had 30 times more student cases now that are positive. we have six times more teachers that are popping up positive. 12 times m...

Infections. let's see what the real life experience looks like. >> dr. jha, i want to ask you about schools. i saw this cnn update that a school district in central florida, osceola county announced that the celebration k through 8 school will close through the rest of the week because of a covid-19 outbreak. they have 52 positive student cases, 11 positive staff cases, 247 students quarantined. there are serious questions about kids going back to school right now, particularly those younger than 12 who can't be vaccinated. what are the risks? >> yeah, look, good news here is a year in we actu...