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Underreporting. crucially, it is the underlying trend we need to look at, week on week, and cases are up about 61%, but hospital admissions are up a lot less, 6%, week on week. they tend to be a bit of a lagging indicator. it is two which are more from when someone test positive that they are likely to need hospital treatment. the other important fact about hospital admissions is that they are very much concentrated in london in terms of a surge in covid. 1800 patients in hospital, up 500, nearly 500, on the week. that is not replicated in other english regions all the nations. it is fairly fl...

Who test positive. as you know, there is a real testing bottleneck. so we need to solve that problem first. >> reporter: omicron is now confirmed in all 50 states, but there is good news. three early studies now adding to the evidence it may be less likely to cause severe disease. still, experts warn it's too early to say for sure. >> it's dangerous business to be able to rely on what you perceive as a lower degree of severity. >> reporter: doctors fear even if omicron is milder than delta, the huge spike in case numbers particularly among the unvaccinated could still strain hospitals in some ...

Fema to set up six new pop-up testing sites here in new york city. those opened last week. president biden promised today that more are actually coming. but here is the question. will it be enough to help contain this variant? joining us now is dr. dave chokshi. doctor, great to have you with us and thank you for joining us tonight. there's a lot to cover here, a lot of new ground we are talking about. but let's start with today. the cdc shortening the length of isolation for those who test positive, decreasing it from ten days to five initially. what do you think of this change? >> yes, what ...

America's epidemic of gun violence. multiple people killed in d denver, colorado. we'll tell you how police say it unfolded. so the u.s. is now averaging nearly 200,000 new covid infections each and every day. but that's not stopping the centers for disease control from cutting the isolation time for people who test positive. here's what's happening. the cdc now recommends isolating for five days, rather than ten, as long as a person has no symptoms. and here's the thing. you have to wear a mask for the next five days out of isolation. take a listen. >> it just makes sense. if you keep them ou...

Told and believed, he could have done great damage to the officers, fatally wounding one of them if they had not acted in the manner they did. >> what is next in the investigation? what is the process? >> so, state investigators will get involved now because there was a fatality. they'll do their findings. they need to be transparent and accurate and move quickly here. a prosecutor at the state ag's office and local prosecutors will sit down and make a determination whether to put the case in front of a grand jury, whether to seek an indictment or not. >> we'll see what goes forward. thank you...