white house, if you re a reporter. a staff who has been testing positive. walensky has been stressing, no, they are not recommending you get a test after that isolation period, once you re no longer showing symptoms for two reasons. one, those more sensitive pcr tests may show you re positive for as long as a period of 12 weeks after the original infection and those more rapid antigen tests may not show if you re transmitting the disease. that s adding to the confusion given the requirements that so many workplaces require that you show a negative test to return to the workplace. i m going to ask you to hang tight to talk about other breaking news. shaq, let s bring you in. you re in illinois, breaking case records. it s a handful of states driving an increase in pediatric hospitalizations. what do we know about those hospitalizations in kids? what are cities like chicago doing to prepare for school which starts back up again next week? reporter: yeah, the return to school is the m
dr. fauci warned while the case numbers are concerning, the hospitalization rates are the real reminder we re not yet out of the woods. we re still getting increases in hospitalizations so we d better be careful we don t jump the gun and think we re in good shape when we need to be extremely careful getting people vaccinated. getting people boosted, making sure we wear masks. we re in a tough situation with omicron. it s not something to be taken lightly. let s check in with our correspondents across the country. covid cases and testing demand keep climbing. we have mike memoli with the president. gary is in new jersey as they break covid case records. alison barber is in new york square as new york city takes testing to the subways. and we also are at la guardia airport. the president talked about omicron earlier today. what s the latest from the white
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transmission rates are high in much of the country. the cdc predicts deaths and hospitalizations will likely increase over the next four weeks. well, in europe, the coronavirus situation is even more dire. have a look at this graphic. you can see there the map. infections are rapidly rising in the region and show no signs really of slowing down. it is especially bad if you look in germany as the country has topped 100,000 covid deaths and set back to back daily case records. cnn s phil black joins me now for more. terrible new record being marked in germany today, but it really does paint a picture of what europe is going to be facing this winter. talk us through the measures that are being put in place, whether they go far enough. the challenge for europe is a case of really bad timing. winter was always going to be rough. delta, people on doors. on top of that patchy vaccination coverage, a lot of variation from country to country, even region to region. but on top of that, even
booster shots out to americans. arlette saenz, cnn, traveling with the president in wilmington, delaware. surging cases are overwhelming hospitals in the state of kentucky. more than 10,000 new cases have been reported in just the past two days. the governor is asking the legislature to extend a state of emergency and is taking a series of drastic measures. our situation is dire. we are setting case records, we have a record number of kentuckians in the hospital battling covid, in the icu battling for their lives. we have a record number of families that are praying for their loved one who is on a ventilator and needs that assistance to breathe. i sent the national guard to our hardest hit hospitals, we brought in fema who have sent some strike teams and now we ve deployed nursing students all over kentucky. and here in georgia, icu beds are at 95% capacity as the delta