television or a newspaper, senator. but it does indicate to me you don t have their votes as of this morning. if you still have yet to convince them, it means you haven t convinced them yet. we are in a 24/7 process. there have been constant discussions over the break on the phone. there have been constant and just about every senator has been talking to both to senator manchin and to senator sinema about how important these issues are. not only to our caucus, to our country, senators are going up to them and saying i ll lose my election if they you allow these changes to occur. there is lots of discussions going on right now. and we re going to keep fighting because it is very, very important. is it a certainty we re going to win? absolutely not. this is an uphill fight. but it is too important to abandon. it is too important to ignore. it is too important to let republicans block us because certain rules which have
is there something that particularly makes children more susceptible to omicron? it is a really good question, john. it is one we have been speaking not only internally about, but with our colleagues around the world. understand is there something they re seeing in their data that makes them worry in particular about children? i would say at this point it is still not clear that kids are more susceptible to omicron compared to adults. but we do know that in many parts of the world, that kids have had a lower vaccination rate. which may be one of the operative elements here that is driving kids to not only get sick, but to have some kids end up in the hospital. it is why we have more work to do here to get more children vaccinated. we have more than 200 million people vaccinated in our country, millions who are boosted. but kids who haven t had vaccines authorized later for them because the studies took longer to do and that was important to do thoroughly, but now we have to put the f
preliminary finals before next summer before releasing a full report in the fall. our panel is back to discuss. i want to start with you. the washington post had a really detailed story on this as well where they quoted an aide to the chairman of the committee bennie thompson saying we want to tell it from start to finish over the series of weeks where we can bring out best witnesses in a way that make the most sense. our legacy piece and final product will be the final report. in the months ahead there will be a lot of public hearings which we haven t had over the course of the last several months leading to this report. right. what do you make of that, the idea of kind of setting the narrative and building out the legacy giving the very diffuse manner in which people view january 6th at this point? it tells me that they want to obviously do oversight and accountability which is the role of congress in a pluck forum. that s not terribly surprising, especially given the composi
you know, the boston marathon bombing, so many big busy things that we ve all been through together, but two years is a long time, you know. disasters take a day or a week at the moment. this has been two years of just constant drainage, and the thing is that now our staff are dealing, on top of a surge in patients and more and more patients at work, they are also dealing with things at home, right? there s breakthrough cases in family members. there s kids who haven t been able to go to school committee you know this, week is a holiday week, but next week kids are going to need to go back to school and if they are out because a classmate tested positive or something, our staff have to try to arrange signature or try to take care of them. i m dealing with that with my family, too, so it s not just the work volume and the crushing number of patients who are coming in. it s also everything that s going on in the rest of society that makes it real hard to be a health care worker these day
christmas eve and that s with testing shortages. and none of the data includes results from those at-home covid tests. the nation overall is averaging 200,000 new cases each day right now. also concerns are growing around the risks for children. there s still a lot we don t know about the severity of omicron and people without immunity like kids who haven t been vaccinated. what we do know is the number of child hospitalizations for covid have quadrupled in new york city in recent weeks. nbc s mike memoli is traveling with the president in delaware. also with us is an epidemiologist from fielding school of public health. mike, we ll start with you in delaware. what did president biden say about what he s doing to shore up testing supplies and hospital resources? reporter: the president touched down here in delaware in the last hour.