players tested positive in one day. broadway shows have been canceled. city emptied clinics in new york city have shut down because of staffing shortages. the big question is, so how do we avoid the worst disruptions, minimizing deaths? we know there is a key problem standing in the way of the. we have a huge pool of unvaccinated people. tens of millions of unvaccinated people. we have, through some combination of exhaustion, i think national human process of acclamation, got used to a truly devastating amount of death. i gotta. 12 to 1300 deaths per day, over the past two weeks. just churning in the background of our lives. i am not saying that to get anyone. there s truly only so much anyone can do to contemplating mass death. we seem to have reached a collectible decision that this levels tolerable. of course, not everyone agrees. some people who find
0 democracy. and the truth about the great shoplifting freak out of 2020. one state now proposing a bounty for parents who find banned books in school. when all in, starts right now. good evening from new york. i m chris hayes. that s we are about to enter a new year. the third calendar year of the pandemic. take a look at this map. put out by the centers of disease control and prevention. it shows the level of community transmission of covid in america right now. laughing at sort of a joke. it s a pretty clear map. solid red in all 50 states. district of columbia and puerto rico experiencing cdc calls high transmission. we are getting new records. as daily case counts sore across the country to the highest amount we diversity. can see on this chart. line is practically going straight up. as we assess where we are right now. i think it s important to understand the fact, omicron variant is just much more transmissible than the previous variants. particularly, the early ones. just a dif