about being with family and loved ones over the next one to two weeks, but i would think this is a critical time. we re already in a delta surge and omicron is here. so i would caution people to be very thoughtful about getting together for large indoor gatherings, and probably avoid that. even for small gatherings, it could potentially be risky. make sure to see if you can obtain rap tests and test as close to the gathering time as possibility. if you re indoors, you want to make sure you re opening doors, opening windows, using a hepa filter if you have access to one. i m specially concerned. i would caution people to be thoughtful why that time frame? i think back to the early stakes, two weeks to stop the spread. the then president said things would be over by easter.
what if you don t have access to internet? and we are told by the officials that they are in the procurement process of that. they are figuring out which companies will supply the half a billion tests and they have not been easy to get your hands on. it will be a big question facing the president. it s difficult to get your hands on a rapid test and it s something that the president acknowledged they came up short on. appreciate it. more on the impact on children and the impact on children s hospitals. the pfizer booster has been approved for kids ages 12-15. but too late to do anything about the numbers right now. we have had staggering numbers. we have shattered prior records that were established in the delta surge in august of 2021. that doctor, texas children s hospital in houston said they saw more than 700 children in one 24 period last week. miguel marquez is there.
than giving an iv infusion that you can get before you get to the hospital. that will help decompress the hospitals and save lives. reporter: so far, while new daily cases average nearly 165,000, 36% higher than a week ago, and nearly as high as the mid-september peak of the delta surge, hospitalizations and deaths remain well below their peaks during delta. washington, d.c., and new york state each setting single-day records for new covid cases this week but new york s governor says the hospitalization rate is only two-thirds what it was this time last year. we re not panicking. we have the resources we need. reporter: this as coronavirus outbreaks continue on land and at sea. royal caribbean ship odyssey of the seas denied entry to ports in aruba after 55 fully vaccinated crew members and passengers contracted covid. according to the miami herald. it s the second of the cruise line ships to report an outbreak
the country after the covid relief bill. what grow tell them, these school districts? yeah. you know, really importantly i want to remind people that in the fall of this year we had a delta surge, and we were able to safely keep our children in school before we had pediatric vaccination. fast forward to now, we have pediatric vaccination. of course, every jurisdiction is going to have to make these decisions locally. but what i will say is the most important thing we can do is get to our children vaccinated, our teachers and our teenagers vaccinated and then to practice all those mitigation strategies that have been proven to work, masking, ventilation, test to stay strategies have saved hundreds of thousands of person days for kids staying in school. all of those things have been proven to work. brent breath dr. walensky, we always appreciate your time. great to talk with you. great to be here. thanks. bret: up next, we ll talk with miami mayor francis suarez, new
the country after the covid relief bill. what grow tell them, these school districts? yeah. you know, really importantly i want to remind people that in the fall of this year we had a delta surge, and we were able to safely keep our children in school before we had pediatric vaccination. fast forward to now, we have pediatric vaccination. of course, every jurisdiction is going to have to make these decisions locally. but what i will say is the most important thing we can do is get to our children vaccinated, our teachers and our teenagers vaccinated and then to practice all those mitigation strategies that have been proven to work, masking, ventilation, test to stay strategies have saved hundreds of thousands of person days for kids staying in school. all of those things have been proven to work. brent breath dr. walensky, we always appreciate your time. great to talk with you. great to be here. thanks. bret: up next, we ll talk with miami mayor francis suarez, new