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More mild. but that said, people are staying home and quarantining if they've been exposed or to recover from the virus. and all of this has a domino effect on everybody. and i want to hear what a representative for the texas restaurant association had to say when we spoke to them. take a listen. >> the industry lost almost 60% of its workforce at the peak of the pandemic, right, when we were required to close, we couldn't have on-premise dining. that was about 700,000 workers. and many of those folks moved on to other jobs. they couldn't wait for restaurants to get reopened. and so, many of t...

Believed to be mostly mild. on top of that, hospitalizations are up, but only 13% in the last two weeks, and deaths are pretty much flat. in fact, we have only gotten word of one single death from omicron, and that was from an unvaccinated person with underlying conditions. nevertheless, president biden is urging people to do everything they can to keep themselves and their community safe. >> i know you're tired. i really mean this, and i know you're frustrated. we all want this to be over. we're still in it, and this is a critical moment. we also have more tools than we've ever had before. we...

59%, suggesting that while the new variant was on the rise, it is not infecting people at the rate that the cdc just projected. >> pediatric hospitalizations are also near their september peak though. nationwide hospitalizations of children with the virus have jumped on average nearly 50% in just one week. parents understandably concerned as vaccination rates particularly among the pediatric population continue to lag leaving many children potentially vulnerable to infection. president biden says for now vaccine requirements for domestic travel could be imposed if his medical team recommends i...

Average over a two-week period climbed by more than 200%. those figures only illustrate part of the story. testing sites are overwhelmed as omicron spreads at breakneck speeds. many americans are turning to at-home tests, if they're lucky enough to get their hands on one. think about all the positive tests that aren't being properly counted. some experts believes if all all the active cases were accurately counted, we would have somewhere near 1 million new cases a day in this country. and the serious cases are again overwhelming hospitals across america. in many parts of the country, long lin...

Settings in areas of substantial and high-risk community transmission. and take a test before you gather. >> reporter: meanwhile, the legal struggle over some of the president's pandemic policies continues in the courts. the supreme court has scheduled oral arguments on january 7th for the president's vaccine mandates. erica, back to you. >> we will be watching for that one. noted on the calendar. joe johns, thank you. here in new york, another record day of covid cases. the new daily average, nearly 22,000. those cases, though, it's important to note, are not leading to record hospitalizati...