100,000 nationwide, numbers on par with last summer s delta surge. and now covid cases in kids are higher than at any point in the pandemic. only 33% of kids 5-17 are fully vaccinated. more than 325,000 pediatric cases were reported for the week ending december 30, and hospitalizations are at the highest they ve ever been. 672 a day, a 114% increase since last week, all as kids head back to school. dr. mary suzanne whitworth of cook children s in fort worth, texas, has watched as more kids are admitted to her hospital. a majority of them unvaccinated. over the last two weeks, they ve triple and quadrupled in numbers. it s been a rapid rise. reporter: the number of patients isn t the only concern. te surging number of cases means healthcare workers are also getting infected and can t report to work. and that s the danger point of omicron is that one-two punch
ISTANBUL - China is confident that next February's Winter Olympics will go ahead "smoothly and successfully" despite the growing challenges posed by the new Omicron coronavirus variant, the country's Foreign Ministry said on Tuesday. Relying on snap lockdowns and a rapid vaccination rollout, China has largely managed to control its Covid-19 situation, with official figures placing the country's total cases since December 2019 at 98,672, including 4,636 deaths. As Beijing gears up to host the 2022 Winter Olympics from Feb. 4 to Feb. 20, the world is bracing for a new wave of the pandemic after the emergence of the Omicron strain, which the World Health Organization has said carries a very high risk of infection. "Omicron will bring challenges to the Covid-19 prevention work at the Beijing 2022 Winter Olympics. But China has experience in dealing with the coronavirus . [and] is confident that the event will proceed smoothly and successfully," said Zhao Lij
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more likely to be getting severely illinois in you become infective. i think the data has become pretty clear on this. why didn t they anticipate this? part of it is what they didn t know. but we talk about this term herd immunity. part of the herd immunity was to say we know not everyone s going to get protected. if we get enough protection we can essentially form a herd of protection around those who are vulnerable. when you get to that point in the country, and that s why we re having this discussion now. when it comes to kids, how concerned are you that 494,000 new covid cases in children in the week ending august 5th. is this part of the so-called category five hurricane you thought might happen earlier this year? i think this entire surge is part of what we re concerned about. and i appreciate the fact we keep talking about when we hit 60 or 672 or 62% of the
increase is sharper over the past several months and greater than in june. allow me to share but the enforcement numbers for july. 212, 672 persons attempted entry. a 13% increase over june 2021. a majority continue to be single adult. this is a 6% decrease from june. 95,788 individuals were processed for expulsion under title 42. 116,864 individuals were processed under title 8. they are immigration enforcement