haven t really risen here in, say, new york city, but people who are getting it are still really sick and it is a pretty miserable week for them or so. how should we be looking at the pandemic right now? how should we approach going to large events, doing indoor dining, and what do we know about long covid, particularly with the omicron variant? well, i ll answer your last question first. we know that long covid is a debill stating disease. it can happen in those who are vaccinated, although the risk is dramatically lower if you are vaccinated. it is serious even if you have a vaccine break through infection. we talk about severe illness, but let s pay respect to the fact even if you are holed up at home with, quote, unquote, moderate symptoms it is a big deal. thank you for pointing that out, jonathan. at a high level over the next months i suspect hospitals will feel unstressed. up until the end of october of 2022 we should expect there won t be significant surges
hospitalizations haven t seen that rapid rise, up only 3% in the last week. testing the remains. huge concern as the united states tries to keep the numbers down. long lines await those attempting to take a covid test as we look at footage from raleigh, north carolina. scenes like that playing out across the country, some of the largest cities and states breaking records and case numbers. new york setting a new high with 44,000 new cases reported on friday alone. in los angeles, meantime, new cases tripled in the last week. the surge, of course, having big impact on holiday travel. several major airlines cancelling hundreds of flights because of staffing shortages. alison kosik is monitoring the developments. new york is seeing so many cases now, what s being done to slow it down? boris, great to see you.
but it didn t slow her down. the queen back at her desk while she was still officially in mourning. until doctors advised her to rest in october following a hospital stay and preliminary investigations into an undisclosed condition. later compounded by a back sprain. it s an extremely punishing schedule for someone who is 95, and no one would criticize her at all and everyone would support her in stepping back and doing a bit less. reporter: she gave up international travel some years ago, so prince charles represented her in barbados in november for a ceremony to replace her as head of state by a locally appointed president. it marked the end of 396 years of british rule and a long-awaited reconciliation with the island s colonial past. the appalling atrocity of slavery, which forever stains our history, the people of this island forged their path with
carried on until william was fired an unsolicited question. are you a racist family, sir? very much not a racist family. reporter: the queen s youngest son, prince edward, spoke to cnn but wouldn t be drawn on the sussex saga. we ve all had attention in our lives and we ve all dealt with it in different ways. listen, we wish them the very best. reporter: the palace has continued to distance itself from prince andrew publicly, pursued by the fbi in recent years for sexual abuse allegations. accused of virginia roberts giuffre claiming he assaulted her when she was 17. prince andrew has repeated denied wrongdoing. regardless how the pending trial unfolds, royal commentators expect the constitution to survive intact. i think they have taken a
your reporting. thanks, paula. with me now are dr. amish adull gentleman, senior scholar at johns hopkins university. all right. doctor, i want to start with you. we know the u.s. is averaging more than 386,000 cases a day. hospitalizations haven t risen as much. we know those numbers usually lag case counts. so from what you were seeing, do you think the health care system could be overwhelmed in the next few weeks? i certainly think that there are certain regions of the country where there are high risk people that are not vaccinated where you re going to see capacity compromised. they re being crushed with delta patients. that s been going on for the past couple months, and they have staffing shortages and they have staff out sick. so what we ll likely see are regional parts of the country having difficulties with