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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...

Statement that cornell released. it says, cornell's extensive surveillance testing yesterday uncovered the likely early and rapid spread of the omicron variant of sars-cov-2 among our student population. while preliminary initial screening results indicate that the variant now accounts for a very high percentage of our positive covid-19 cases, virtually every case of the omicron variant to date has been found in fully vaccinated students, a portion of whom had also received a booster shot. so what do you say here? has there been severe illness in any of the students? >> so among the student po...

To three months. so, it has dramatically focused attention on getting the population in the best possible immunological state before omicron really hits. fergus, we have also had the opposite point of view from some viewers who think the coverage has actually not taken the risk of omicron seriously enough, and that people listening will be too casual about it. well, it's dominated the airwaves. i don't think there's anything that's been casual about the coverage. we have pointed out that some doctors in south africa who first identified it said, well, it's causing mostly a mild illness, but th...

>> john: just making sure there is nobody else that is involved with this. we should point out that oxford is 30 miles northwest of detroit. considered a suburb of detroit. halfway between detroit and flint. the wildcats are the sports team there. looks like a great high school from what we have seen in terms of fairly new. great facility there. this population itself is about 4,000 or so. i would imagine the student population they would probably be in the mid hundreds. we are not getting a whole lot of information yet, sandra, other than what the sheriff's office tweeted out, which was that ...

Still describing it as an active situation. dozens of police officers appeared earlier, live shots to the school did show members of the s.w.a.t. team walking into the school. very few updates from there, but we will get one shortly and go to that live. >> john: monitoring social media. there has not been anything to push the story forward. one mother was interviewed by a local news outlet, talking about her daughter being okay but clearly being shaken out. the school was built in 2004. it's got a student population of about 1600 people, so a fairly large school there. >> sandra: some of the s...