washington, d.c. are ahead of the curve, but not by much. so expect that in the next three to four weeks we re going to see everyone really hit with this. reporter: new jersey identified more than 28,000 new covid-19 cases via pcr testing, governor phil murphy said on thursday. the number of positive cases likely higher due to at-home testing, he added. some governors calling on the national guard. ohio governor mike dewine deploying 1,250 national guard troops, he said on the day the state reported its highest hospitalization numbers. georgia also deployed 200 troops the same week that six major health systems saw 100% to 200% increases in hospitalizations, governor brian kemp said. and new york doubling its national guard deployment to 100 and preparing for 80 guardsmen to undergo emergency medical training next month, with more virus spreading in the country more than 30 colleges and universities are changing the start of their spring semesters. and more children are getting sick
moving forward and we want to show the world new york city is fighting our way through this. it is really important to not give up in the face of this. reporter: the city insisting it can party safely even while navigating staffing shortages affecting ems, fire department, and the subway. in washington, d.c., the smithsonian temporarily shutting down five of its museums. jetblue announcing they re canceling nearly 1300 flights through the middle of january. it is just going to be a matter of weeks before we have an entire viral blizzard across all of this country. reporter: the pressure only rising for hospitals across the country. ten states and washington, d.c. are seeing some of the highest hospitalization numbers of the pandemic. in georgia six major health systems report collectively seeing a 100% to 200% increase in covid-19 hospitalizations. unvaccinated adults remain the most likely to be hospitalized but pediatric hospitalizations continue to climb. the vast majority o
we know a third dose or we call a booster dose way better than just two. so i think i am all for tightening that up. and then, look. i i put this in front of the president. i think it s a complex question. i m not sure which way i would advise him unless i was looking at all the data and all the facts. but certainly, it s an option that he has available to him and i think he knows he s got it available to him. and if we get into january, um, i hope that his advisers and i have confident that his advisers are going to be, you know, pushing for a decision one way or the other. all right. andy slavitt, thank you very much for your time. we appreciate it. thank you, jim. and given the climbing pediatric hospitalization numbers, i want to focus more closely now on what parents need to know, especially as back to school approaches. let s talk to dr. paul offit, who we saw him briefly in tom foreman s report a few moments ago. he is director of the vaccine education center at childr
on hospitalization numbers. the encouraging news as you ve noted is while this omicron variant spreads very quickly, the u.k. and south africa research suggests it is not as harmful. so i think if the president wants to try and make himself useful at this point i think he should focus on treatments and getting rid of any barriers to new treatments. they talk about flu ox mean which may be a hopeful treatment as well. julie: you are sounding like benjamin hall last week. everybody is losing their voice. let me just ask you. take your time and clear your throat. as far as the president s availability, the president s forthrightness if you will on getting the information out to the american public, he hasn t really said much other than the fact that the federal government isn t doing a very
seeing? well we are still deeply in the delta surge here. in west michigan. our hospitalization numbers are not at all time highs. but we re so far beyond anything we have seen before the pandemic. and finding beds for patients on a regular basis is still a challenge every day. i m in a county where i work. about 45% of people are vaccinated. it doesn t look like it s budging from there any time soon. without mandates. so we expect to have omicron hit us fairly hard. we are hopeful that the cases are less severe. but i don t think the expeerpt has been tried and low vaccination areas. we have seen it in big cities on the east coast. we have seen it in the uk the people are vaccinated or south africa where people are younger. if delta doesn t completely let up what omicron will bring. i m surprised to hear you say that your hospital beds and everything is filled with people