dolphins defense, picked off twice, sacked eight times. big moment, but he wasn t ready. and jalen waddell on the other hand had a pretty big night, a touchdown on this misdirection play. so the dolphins pick up the win and they have won seven straight after losing seven straight. no team in nfl history has had streaks like that in the same season. and just one other note for you with the cdc shortening of isolation guidelines, the nba is now allowing vaccinated players and coaches to shorten their time in quarantine as well from 10 days down to 6 if they are tested and no longer deemed infectious. all right. thank you so much, your day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and around the world. it is tuesday, december 28th,
thank you very much for that. let s bring in cnn s senior medical correspondent, elizabeth cohn along with peter, director for texas hospital for vaccine development. also author of preventing the next pandemic. elizabeth, can you walk us through these new cdc isolation guidelines? some of this sounds like the honor system, if you don t mind me saying. oh, you re absolutely right about this, jim. this also came really after pressure from employers for whose businesses are considered essential. really pressuring the cdc to change these isolation rules because so many people are mildly ill or even just asymptomatic with this new variant that they said look, if we want to keep for example, delta airlines said if we want to keep the planes flying, we need to change these. so it used to be that if you had covid, it was a ten-day i
right. it was a long weekend for travelers. the omicron grinch and severe weather is part of the issue that s affecting what s going on with travelers across the airport. we ve got a mess on our hands again today. about 1,000 flights that were canceled on sunday as this new covid variant caused staffing problems at the mayor juror airlines. major airlines. more than 700 flights have been canceled for today many remember, the ceo of del the take asked the cdc to revisit is isolation guidelines for vaccinated individuals because flight crews are at home dealing with likely a lesser version of omicron, but they can t come to work. it s caused havoc in the skies. todd: what a mess. despite what airline ceos say about air flow in the planes themselves, dr. fauci says masks on planes are here to stay. cheryl: yeah. he s doubling down again. this is after of course gary kelly, the ceo of united and as well as american, they all said,
what happened with 0micron. it came from an under vaccinated population in southern africa and spread worldwide. it s only a matter of time until this happens again and the best way to prevent that, as we know, is to get the world vaccinated. we ve been calling for the world to do this for over the past year, part 1.5 years, and although there s been some ramp up in, really, the motivation to do so, it s still not enough. we need to get more done much quicker otherwise we re going to be in this scenario again. we re not going to boost our way out this pandemic. that was doctor craig spencer. if you want to find out more about why boosters work against the 0micron variant, when two doses struggle our health correspondentjames gallagher has written about it in detail on our website. there s lots more too about what we do and don t know about the 0micron variant. find it all on the bbc news app or on our website at bbc.com/news. here in england new isolation guidelines have been annou
israel has become the first country in the world to offer a fourth vaccine dose. it will be given first to the over 60s and to medical workers. and in england, people who test positive will be able to reduce their isolation period from ten days to just seven. we ll have more on the us shortly. first with a look at the other developments here s mark lobel. as children receive their dose of the pfizer vaccine at the school, israel has become the first country in the world to make a fourth dose of a coronavirus vaccine widely available to people over the age of 60 and medical workers. the country s prime minister naftali bennett welcomed the new saying the measure would help get through the omicron wave that is engulfing the world. as cases continue to rise in the uk, new isolation