barnes & noble, wherever books are sold. walmart. thank you for even being the new york times at their own gain. appreciate it. kennedy: well done, kayleigh paid to matt s point earlier, it s a great book to take to the hillside near you and celebrate the new year. thanks so much everyone today. anita, cheryl, matt, and of course kayleigh. now here is america reports. gillian: fox news alert, kicking off a special edition of america reports. case count in the u.s. to a new high not seen before during this pandemic. the seven-day average now is nearing 300,000 cases each day. while hospitalizations and deaths aren t spiking as fiercely, they are also on the rise. good afternoon to washington. i am gillian turner in for sandra smith today. hey, mike. mike: i m mike emanuel in for john roberts. this on the contrary it is wreaking havoc on daily life. the travel nightmare at airports
of thing. one of the recommendations of the group of advisors was to, to use the metric of hospitalizations and deaths to trigger emergency response rather than overall case count. we see that going through the roof. quickly, a few seconds left. what is the new normal going to be? constant masking, school closures, lockdowns, etc., etc., or say look, it s like the flu, like r.s.v., it s out there, let s live our lives, we ll deal with it when people get sick? exactly. i hope we can get to the point we deal with it like with flu and never see a school shut down, never see lockdowns or closures again. we are not to that point. we need to update the vaccination, make sure we vaccinate the world. other variants will come to this country and know your risk and protect yourself, masking, vaccination, testing when available. i think we are a long way from the end of the tunnel here. we are getting there. we are getting there. john: dr. nesheiwat, have a
getting infected not in health care, but in the community. and many of them fortunately are vaccinated and boosted and having a mild infection, and many of them are wanting to come back to work, because the reality is that they are seeing how much strain the colleagues and friends are under, and they want to help. my hat goes off to each and every one of the health care workers, because they are hero and behaving as such right now. amen. they are hero and have been since day one and remain so as we enter the third year. and so, now, look at the case count in boston starting to go down a little bit and the wastewater sampling is showing that in the covid, and the same here in washington, d.c., and you can see the giant spike and starting to trickle down, and in some of the cases omicron is hitting the surging, and them we are starting to see the plateau and decrease, and where are we in the rest of the country, two or three weeks away and do we know? there s differing modeling out t
reported. i ve talked to health departments in the last several days where they are weeks behind in reporting cases. a daily case count means low. what we need to focus on and what we re getting on in terms of seriousness, how many people are hospitalized, particularly are requirements for oxygen. that s going to be a lagging indicator, meaning seven to ten days offset from the cases themselves. it s going to be the best measure we have. right now, that s what people like myself are tracking is what s happening with hospitalizations, and as you see, we ve now got over 100,000 hospitalizations here in the country. it s rising rapidly. that says this is a really important issue, and that while there may be many many more omicron cases of which many are mild, the sheer number of cases means even if a smaller percentage are severely ill, they re still going to be potentially more of them than we saw with delta, and that surely will challenge our health care systems. let me ask you about
what s the right science and it s what the right policy to release to the world and testing it before going tout to the public. time and to imagain we ve been vok by the poll tis that come out of this cdc it wouldn t be a question that i think every parent around the country is asking. number up, we want to show you the combined current covid case count with covid hospitalizations and covid democrats you see the yellow lines. that s cases. omicron cases are way up. it s a straight line like a rocket ship. we do see, unlike delta, hospitalizations and deaths by the number, i know those are huge numbers still and they are hurting hospitals and every one of those deaths hurts an american family in an american community, but there is a big connection between cases and deaths unlike the previous