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COVID cases rise as Pirola variant spreads to two more countries; symptoms you need to be aware of

The new COVID variant Pirola is spreading fast across the world and cases have doubled in just a week. The variant is now present in 4 continents and testing has started using wastewater samples. While governments have not addressed it as a serious issue, it is suspected that the variant might surpass previous vaccine immunities.

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CNN Newsroom With Poppy Harlow and Jim Sciutto-20211220-14:41:00

in place at the airport to acam date for the rise in infections? >> reporter: no big changes yet, jim. remember early in the pandemic, there weren't many changes very quickly to begin with. so many people are having that go/no go discussion but we're seeing millions of people are still going regardless of these new infection rates. the tsa screened 2.12 million people at airports across the country just yesterday. that is the fourth straight day that we've seen higher than 2 million people at airports nationwide, in fact the number on friday the highest number we have seen since the monday after thanksgiving. it's clear a lot of people have a lot of confidence in traveling right now. there were long lines at airports across the country yesterday from austin to atlanta to boston. dr. anthony fauci says it's important to weigh the risks right now if you're going to travel especially considering how quickly this new variant spreads. here's what he said. >> clearly, when you travel,

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Andrea Mitchell Reports-20211220-17:06:00

the prime minister there saying it was the only way to make sure that hospitals wouldn't be overwhelmed. again, just because of the rate at which this variant spreads. here in the uk, as you mentioned, andrea, there's a real political issue when it comes to imposing more restrictions. scientists have been pushing for them. boris johnson, the prime minister met with his cabinet this afternoon. so far no announcement on a fresh lockdown. he would have a really, really tough time selling that to his party, andrea. >> yeah, and as i was just alluding to, they had an election a couple of days ago, which is the equivalent of one of our special elections in a congressional district, a district that has not gone against the conservatives in 200 years, went for the lib dems which is, you know, shocking to boris johnson, right? >> reporter: yeah, that's right. the fact that he lost this election, his party lost this

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Andrea Mitchell Reports-20211229-17:38:00

>> yeah, joining me now, dr. stan spinner, the pooed yacht tricks and urgent care. showing hospitalizations are increasing twice as fast, but it's not clear if the kids have been vaccinated. what are you seeing as this variant spreads? >> we are certainly seeing a large increase in the positivity rate of kids here in the community and we have seen our number of kids hospitalized here nearly quad quadruple. and they may be vaccinated or partially vaccinated, and even in our adolescents, and so many

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At This Hour With Kate Bolduan-20211224-16:03:00

period for its workers who experience a breakthrough coronavirus case. right now the isolation period is set at ten days. airlines want it to be down to five days to keep more workers on the job. they say that will avoid more issues like the one we have seen just now and also issues like we saw during the fall when airlines had to cancel thousands of flights, kates. >> you see those issues snowballing as the variant spreads. thanks, pete. also at this hour, the white house reversing course. president biden says he plans to lift covid travel restrictions imposed on african nations. let's get over to the white house. joe johns is standing by. what is the white house saying? >> reporter: the white house always said this was a temporary measure, and now they say the cdc has made progress in understanding the omicron variant. also they say there's more confidence that vaccines do work, especially when people go ahead and get the booster shot. so given all of that, the white house has a bit more confidence

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FOX Friends First-20211216-09:31:00

is the omicron covid variant spreads, the school requiring covid vaccines for all staff and for students. nyu announcing this week that vaccine booster will be required by january 18th. laura: california reimplemented its indoor mask mandate impacting businesses across the state. one of those frustrated business owners, the co-owner of film of fit joins me know. good morning, the full changed this week and now people going into your gym, whether vaccinated or not, when you heard this was going to be the new what went through your head? >> good morning. what went through my head, i'm just in shock. i don't know what else to do. this is ridiculous, the mask mandate, we all know they don't help, there's no evidence that proves that it slows the spread and it is sending the wrong

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BBC News-20211209-20:50:00

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BBC News-20211209-17:15:00

well, there are some things that are unknown, but one thing is becoming increasingly unclear, which is how rapidly the new variant spreads. so if it spreads a free to add a bit days it means that in one week you are going to have eight times as many infections, in two weeks 64 times as many and in three weeks 512 times as many and in three weeks 512 times as many and in three weeks 512 times as many, so we cannot afford to wait, we need to act now or we are going to be in very, very hot water indeed and even if it is less severe and we don't know that yet, it would still mean with so many cases that they would be huge numbers of hospitalisations and deaths, so the simple fact of the matter is we cannot afford to dilly—dallying and we can't act now. in terms of what we do, it seems to me the first thing of course as vaccination, but vaccination is going to take a while and it takes a while for vaccinations to kick in, so the things we need to immediately another one, the more contacts you

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Morning Joe-20211208-12:10:00

span bath? the vaccines are working. if you were around everybody who has been vaccinated, man, they're working. >> willie has breaking news on that. >> on that topic, pfizer announced lab studies show a third dose, the booster of their covid-19 vaccine, neutralizes the omicron variant. that is incredible news. >> wow. >> great news. >> amazing. >> we haven't heard from moderna on this question. if you have the pfizer biontech vaccine, the third dose, getting the booster neutralizes the omicron variant, which will be peace of mind and great news about keeping things open here the next stretch as the variant spreads. >> that's great news. you have the pfizer pill that hopefully is going to be effective as well. you have, again, in new york city, nine out of ten people who are vaccinated. the numbers keep going up. this is really good news. if we keep going in this direction, we're going to have a good spring. >> yeah, there was another study

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Deadline White House-20211130-21:30:00

nine gop-controlled states have passed laws requiring exceptions for the vaccine mandate, requiring private companies from requiring it all together. at least 20 bills have been introduced to chip away at. so basil, 60 million eligible adults still unvaccinated as a new variant spreads. the republican party that's aligning himself. it's not just covid fatigue they're up against. they're treating the public health crisis like a political opportunity. >> that's exactly right and that's why it's so hard to see daylight at this end of this. i go back to the financial collapse. we could see daylight at the end of that. >> this is really difficult and a doctor could speak to this more so than i am. we'll deal with this in waves

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