result of so many on the covid list and a longer season. the quality of play seems to be sub parr around much of the league. speaking of the coronavirus, well, it s continuing to affect players across the nfl. a record 106 players were added to the covid list yesterday. 461 since december 13th. yesterday s additions include six new cases among the carolina panthers who now have 13 on the list, another ten added by the jacksonville jaguars. meanwhile the league is requiring all media covering postseason teams and games to get a booster by january 12th. players still not required to do so. central michigan and washington state will play in a bowl game now. they ll face each other in the sun bowl coming up this friday. it follows boise state s withdrawal from the arizona bowl yesterday, which frees up central michigan to play washington state after miami
of the united states when he was just wishing him a merry christmas. let s turn to covid. your state has repeatedly been hit hard by the pandemic. cases are increasing to over 6,000 cases a day in the past week in michigan. what steps can michigan take mie the spread of this new transmissible variants and how are the hospitals holding up there and what could be done to encourage more of your fellow residents to get vaccinated and get their boosters? it s a problem. i am going to say it, too. i talk to the hospital in my district everyday. the university of michigan which is not by the state or the country, we are really struggling. they and other hospitals. we are talking about setting up a field hospital by next week to handle cases. i have another separate hospital system and want to protect
joining us now, there he is, nbc news white house correspondent mike memoli. mike, merry christmas. merry christmas. that clip we just played with the president saying there s no federal solution to deal with omicron drew a lot of attention yesterday. people some of his critics have pointed out that it stands in stark contrast to what he said back in january, which is the federal government would take lead on this, and the federal government not taking the lead sounds like what president trump said during moments in 20. how does the white house explain that remark? give us more context. what did the president mean? well, jon, as always, the context is important. this is the first time the president was participating a call his covid response team does on a fairly regular basis with governors. whenever you g get the president together with governors, you re going to hear a lot of mandates getting in the way of state innovation, and that s what was happening here.
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