It was a total game changer. Learn more about the condition at factsonhand. Com tonight, several developing tonight, several developing stories as we come on the air. The cdc and what theyre now urging involving thanksgiving. Urging americans not to travel. It comes as nearly 200,000 new cases and nearly 2,000 deaths reported in just the last 24 hours. The cdcs alarming new prediction about the death toll by mid december. Authorities in New York City and across the country taking new action. In california, issuing a new curfew tonight. Ohios governor Warning Hospitalizations are reaching critical levels. Dr. Anthony fauci at the white house podium for the first time in months and what he said late today. Reporters asking where is the president on this virus. What were now learning about a third vaccine tonight showing promise. Late today president elect Joe Biden Warning American lives
are at stake with the president refusing to work with him on any transition, on any plan for vaccine
the second is it is nuts to just let a virus go loose. we don t know enough about this virus. it tells us every three or four months we don t know beans about it. just to let it loose is like letting your puppy loose into traffic. i mean, just don t do it because you have no clue. you have no control over the puppy. you have no control over the virus. you just don t do it. it is sort of a well, you talked about that. you talked about being a novel virus, why it is called a novel coronavirus, people with weakened immune systems. but i think the biggest point to not let it rip you said, furthermore since they have trouble clearing the virus, right, meaning people who get omicron, it may linger for months in their body possibly creating a hot house environment to promote new variants any of which might be the next variant of concern. so you just don t know. that is why it continues to replicate and continues to mutate because, you know, people just sort of let it rip. yes.
you talked about being a novel virus, why it is called a novel coronavirus, people with weakened immune systems. but i think the biggest point to not let it rip you said, furthermore since they have trouble clearing the virus, right, meaning people who get omicron, it may linger for months in their body possibly creating a hot house environment to promote new variants any of which might be the next variant of concern. so you just don t know. that is why it continues to replicate and continues to mutate because, you know, people just sort of let it rip. yes. it is one of those ideas that sounds great for about ten seconds and then you go, ah. unintended consequences. also the idea of long covid. you still don t know. because people get it. you think immediately. well not immediately but shortly after they get better but do we know? we re not sure about that. we are not sure. the first case in america was december 1-ish, first case in the world mid november, early november that we
that your county is on the list of one of the hardest hit places in america? no, i m not surprised because it was happening so frequently. reporter: abc news and our abc-owned stations across the country have taken a close look at the data, and it shows the 100 counties in the u.s. with the highest rate of death. what many of they have in common most are rural, poor and have limited access to quality health care. the hardest hit gove county, kansas. and it s been hard because we have cared for them so long. reporter: in south georgia, there were so many g funerals, the ministers here had trouble clearing the red georgia clay from their shoes. and then in october, the strain of this pandemic closed one of the few remaining hospitals. when this hospital closed, it was an incredible loss for people in this part of georgia. it served patients across six counties and was a life saver during the height of the covid crisis.
day he had most or all of the roadways in this town passable. so an indication that there are some neighborhoods where the plows have not gotten to and where they re having trouble clearing the streets. that s always a problem in urban areas. here in philadelphia, they have gotten more snow than perhaps ever. certainly since 1917, i think the official date. 13 1/2 inches reported at the airport. 14 inches recorded by the city s emergency management community here. 16 inches in some of the outlying suburbs, which is a lot of snow in a short period of time, starting at 4:00 p.m. yesterday afternoon. all the snow hit during, of course, the rush hour. people in their offices, trying to get home. unbelievable trying to get home. i was in new jersey and new york last night. it took four hours trying to get home. normally an hour or little bit more of a trip. just paralyzing snow at a really bad time. here you can see on the steps of the artmuseum, they re trying