you are vaccinated, especially if you re boosted, you are still incredibly protected from being hospitalized or dying from covid. there is no need for lockdowns, he says, yet cornell university in upstate new york has shut down its campus amid a spike in cases even though 97% of students there are vaccinated. and we re at a point that many parents are just as concerned if not more concerned about what this ongoing saga is doing to their kids mental health. my colleague stephanie ruhle spoke with a group of kids in new jersey. so now that you are back in school, what happens when someone in your class gets covid. most of my classmates have gone on quarantine cause like lots of my classmates go to dance, soccer. so like, as soon as one person in their class out of school has covid, they quarantine. so in school we do like
the spread of covid that they re seeing now. one of the new york city health officials said they have never seen it like this. maybe it s perhaps that the truth is, new york early on was the epicenter of this covid-19 virus. we didn t know what to expect. so it was hard to know how to identify it. but now, health officials are saying, they didn t even see then what they re seeing now and it s causing them a lot of concern and causing them to take measures that they hope will arrest the continued spread of the virus. great to hand out 500,000 tests, great to hand out a million masks. there are nearly 9 million people in the city and 500,000 tests, that s a drop in the bucket if you need to test people continuously to make sure they re not spreading this virus. so it s great that they re trying something, it doesn t feel like it s enough. dr. redlener, coming on that point from rehema, i wonder, is there a way to live with this at
a year. with delta already putting a strain on hospitals just days from winter, the speed of omicron is fueling a rapid explosion in covid once again. in the uk, cases are at record levels for the entire pandemic. now doubling every two days or even less. the cdc says omicron accounts for about 3% of cases here nationwide but about 13% in parts of the northeast. but researchers from harvard say an omicron surge is already under way across the united states, outrunning our ability to even track it. early indications are omicron causes milder cases than delta does. but it is better at evading vaccines. new york s governor warned residents today to brace for the day fast approaching when fully vaccinated means boosted as well. to that end, dr. fauci says there is no need for a new separate vaccine for omicron, if
random testing. so they ll pick someone ran come randomly and you ll go get tested and get your results back. so if it comes back positive, the whole class has to go on, like, remote. that is so hard to listen to, you can hear the fatigue in their voices, which begs the question, as we approach christmas gatherings, it is december 2021, not december 2020. should we be measuring the threat differently than we did a year ago in terms of hospitalizations, not cases, since covid is going to be with us for such a long time? that s what a lot of parents are asking right now, given the need for kids to be in classrooms from kindergarten to college. dr. erwin redlener is a pediatrician and the founding director of columbia
attendance. let s move on now. new york city s mayor-elect has tapped the next commissioner of the nypd. commissioner sewell will be only the third black person to lead the nation s largest police force. joining me is incoming police commissioner, chief keechant sewell. thank you for joining us and congratulations on this very big and important job. thank you so much for having me. it s a pleasure to be here. you re coming in at a precarious time. the city is dealing with all sorts of stuff, given covid. it s also quite a rise in crime, quite a rise in violent crime. how do you plan on addressing that? there are quite a few challenges ahead. i plan on addressing them head on. we need to do some assessments to see what s going on in the city now. i met with some leaders from the nypd yesterday. and we re all pretty