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Velshi-20220101-14:56:00

court. >> a lot of liberals will be worried more bad stuff is happening this year. melissa, megan says roe v wade is in trouble. if they do overturn it, do you think they'll bother putting up any convincing legal argument or is it just native ideology. >> i think roe v. wade is in the cross hairs we saw it in oral arguments on december 1st and is it fact that the court decided to take up the question of sb-8 and left that law intact and in force in the state of texas where millions of women have been without their rights for over three months now. so all of this suggests this is a court that has deep antipathy for reproductive rights. it chips away at the edges of roe v. wade leaving that open

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CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell-20211231-19:27:00

very rapidly here. here is how the chief pathologist said that variant is spreading. >> this omicron variant has now reached a new level in terms of infection and in terms of contagiousness, it is now in the category of measles, the most highly transmissible viruses known to mankind. we've been vaccinated against measles for a long time, we need to do the same thing with sars cov 2 and the variant. >> reporter: schools go back into session next tuesday. they expect that will be another vector and not just here in texas but across the country. that is a big concern. one specific concern here in texas is that the governor has banned mask mandates in public schools. so everybody is waiting to see what happens there. they believe that they are still climbing, that the cases as sharp as they are rising here will till go up for next couple

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CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell-20211231-19:26:00

as we head into 2022, pediatric hospitalizations are the highest they've ever been since the pandemic began. according to the cdc, an average of 378 children were admitted even day in the past week. the hospitalizations are specially high in houston. that is where cnn's miguel marquez has been speaking with officials about the effects of the omicron variant in kids. miguel? >> reporter: we visited texas children's hospital, it is the nation's largest pediatric hospital and they are on full alert, preparing, putting up the defenses for whatever the omicron variant can throw at them. one number sort of puts it in perspective, in the last week the number of hospitalizations at texas children's has risen four fold. that is a very worrying number. the omicron variant spreading

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CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell-20211231-19:28:00

of weeks. they think mid-january and into february will be the worst of it. texas children's hospital said they are prepared for whatever omicron brings. ryan? >> miguel marquez, thank you so much. let' head to florida and happening now, the broward county public schools are meeting to consider whether adults should wear masks upon return from the winter break. this is after miami-dade county decided that wearing a mask would be mandatory for all adults inside of the school facilities or, excuse me, on our school buses. leyla santiago is outside of the school board meeting with more on that. what are you hearing about this decision? >> reporter: ryan, right now broward county looking into requiring masks for employees, vendors and visitors. when they come back to school next week. and if they move forward with that, they will be one of at least three school districts that are making revisions to their protocols when it comes to

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CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell-20211231-19:06:00

their new year's eve celebration and they have very modest levels in new zealand. we just seem to keep tripping over our own feet. >> you talk about just how infectious this particular variant it and a pathologist at a texas children's hospital said that omicron has reached a level in terms of contagiousness that is now in the same category of measles which is one of the most highly transmissible viruses. in fact, i think we're going to play a sound bite from him. take a listen to this. we don't have that sound, i'm sorry. so just from that perspective, dr. reiner, would you agree that the level of communic ability, of this variant is equal to something like measles. >> at the beginning of this pandemic, now hard to believe almost two years ago, we were all taught, you know, you have a significant exposure if you're

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Anderson Cooper 360-20220104-06:03:00

what if you don't have access to internet? and we are told by the officials that they are in the procurement process of that. they are figuring out which companies will supply the half a billion tests and they have not been easy to get your hands on. it will be a big question facing the president. it's difficult to get your hands on a rapid test and it's something that the president acknowledged they came up short on. >> appreciate it. more on the impact on children and the impact on children's hospitals. the pfizer booster has been approved for kids ages 12-15. but too late to do anything about the numbers right now. >> we have had staggering numbers. we have shattered prior records that were established in the delta surge in august of 2021. >> that doctor, texas children's hospital in houston said they saw more than 700 children in one 24 period last week. miguel marquez is there.

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Katy Tur Reports-20220104-19:05:00

a huge challenge. the governor of new jersey recently called this covid wave the omicron tsunami. that is how severe and significant this wave is becoming in this state. right now in new jersey there are more people hospitalized at this point than at any other point in the last year of the pandemic. in fact, the most since may of 2020 and the experts, the doctors we've been speaking with say this is due to the transmissibility of this virus. even though it's less severe, less deadly, especially for those who are vaccinated and boosted, this virus is just spreading so rapidly now among more and more of the population that that is driving those hospitalizations up. right here at university hospital in newark, new jersey, where you heard from that doctor of the ceo of the hospital here, they have seen their hospital admissions double in the last seven days. it's important to think about and to understand who is getting hospitalized and who is most critically ill. i want you to hear from

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Katy Tur Reports-20220104-19:06:00

dr. andrew berman, a pulmonologist and critical care doctor we just spoke with moments ago. take a listen to what he told me. >> of our sickest patients, most of them are unvaccinated or unknown vaccinated status. it's really clear, the message is get your covid vaccines, get your booster shots. wear your masks, treat this like it was the first wave. don't get comfortable. even healthy people can get very sick. >> reporter: and katy, they're emphasizing those measures, those tools we have in the tool kit even more now because this hospital is getting hit with a one-two punch, more people in their beds, but fewer staff members to care for them because staff themselves are getting sick. they're getting exposed. they're having to isolate, and so that is really putting that strain on the hospital system, and they don't want it to get overwhelmed, really emphasizing those measures more than ever. >> with me now is dr. ezekiel

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Katy Tur Reports-20220104-19:04:00

boosted, particularly boosted, that's the key element here, you're at a very low risk of having severe disease, ending up in the hospital or dying. it's a message, though, we've been hearing from the white house really for months now this push to get people boosted. the administration says they have been making some progress there. they've been doing about a million booster shots a day, but of course we continue to see these infection numbers go up and the hospitalization numbers corresponding there. so covid once again on the front of the president's burner as he starts off 2021, and we hope to get a little more insight into what else the federal government is doing to try and address these shutdowns and closures. >> there's so many sickouts across the country, across all industries, but most concerningly perhaps is what's happening at hospitals and dasha, you're in new jersey. we just heard from a hospital in new jersey that's having an issue because of their staffing. what's being done to make sure these hospitals can still run? >> reporter: yeah, katy, this is

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Katy Tur Reports-20220104-19:03:00

spreading so rapidly. >> reporter: yeah, that's right, katy, it's almost like an involuntary shutdown that's going on at schools and businesses, certainly not where the administration wanted to be even just a month ago. as you noted, we are expected to hear from the president soon. there's a bit of news coming out of the white house ahead of his remarks. the white house announcing on their twitter feed that u.s. is going to increase its order for these pfizer antiviral pills that prove to be very effective at keeping people out of the hospital. they're going to double those so eventually the u.s. will have 20 million courses of therapy so enough to treat 20 million people. a big question, though, is when they're going to be able to get all of those pills because pfizer has said in the past it's a slow ramp up in production. this is a complex pill to make. it could be some time before the u.s. has a real plentiful supply of this pfizer pill. in the meantime, other things we expect to hear from the white house today another push again for people to get vaccinated. the president is expected to say if you are vaccinated and

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