with canceled or postponed games. and hospitals are seeing a surge in cases among children. not because omicron is uniquely targeting them but because we see children who are hospitalized because of covid or in the icu because of covid. they re all unvaccinated. they re unvaccinated, the parents are unvaccinated, the siblings are unvaccinated. reporter: that s why some medical professionals believe the reopening of schools, especially those with thorough covid safety measures, could reduce the spread among kids. although others are not convinced. i think that what we re going to see is once children go back to school within a week or two of schools opening is when we re going to see our highest numbers. reporter: that said, in new york city, where the cases are skyrocketing right now, officials say the bells will ring, the doors will open, and students will be expected back in class next week, and i imagine many school districts across the country will follow suit. alisyn?
lessening. our staffing concerns have not been addressed, and measures like this will make it worse instead of better. okay, so, that was the president of the national nurses association in tom foreman s piece. we also heard from the head of the flight attendants association. they just think, i mean, is this for people to police themselves on planes? because people are not doing a great job of policing themselves on airplanes right now. there are a couple points here that are really worth considering. there s a large variation in how long people can continue to transmit this variant, and we still don t know that much about it. we ve only been dealing with this for about a month, and so there s a risk that, you know, folks aren t wearing their masks after that first five days of isolation and can pass it on. the second is there s a subjective experience of getting sick and it s important that people feel better to get back to work and so it is a recognition that just because you hav
in the past few days. maine, michigan, new hampshire, and vermont saw more people hospitalized from covid than ever before. still, new cdc guidance aims to shorten the isolation period for people who test positive but have no symptoms from ten days to just five. cnn s tom foreman joins me now with all the details. tom, it is hard for people to keep up with all the new guidance and protocols, so take us through the latest. so many people are just exhausted by this, alisyn. we ve been through two years of this now and much of the goal right now seems to be to meet this new wave sweeping through the country and yet somehow keep the country working. the new cdc recommendation is simple enough. if you test positive for covid but show no symptoms, you can isolate for five days instead of the previous ten. then go about your business wearing a mask for five more. but the reason for the change is