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national hospital are testing positive. all told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. that s not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because we see children who are hospitalized because of covid or in the icu because of covid. they are all unvaccinated. parents are unvaccinated, siblings are unvaccinated. reporter: others fear the return to school next week could be even worse. i think that what we are gaeigae going to see is once children going to school, within a week or two of schools opening is when we are going to see our highest numbers. reporter: amid the winter weather, the pandemic is roaring across the country with over a quarter million new cases now diagnosed daily. that s a record. this omicron variant is such a game-changer, in terms of its high, high transmissibility. it s like this big virus blizzard. reporter: hospitalizations are only about half of what they were last winter, but some ....
congress dying at the age of 82. his wife said he passed peacefully this afternoon following a four-year battle with pancreatic cancer. former president barack obama sharing a letter he wrote to harry reid ahead of his passing with this quote: i wouldn t have been president had it not been for your encouragement and support, and i wouldn t have gotten most of what i got done without your skill and determination. most of all, you ve been a good friend. as different as we are, i think we both saw something of ourselves in each other, a couple of outsiders who had defied the odds and knew how to take a punch and cared about the little guy. and you know what? we made for a pretty good team. chuck schumer tweeting tonight and perhaps not surprisingly one-time middleweight amateur boxer sa boxer saying harry reid was one. most amazing individuals i d ever met, he never forgot where he came from and used those boxing instincts to fight for those who were hurting, the poor an ....
variant as they are to older strains. this, as hospitals, schools, transportation networks, and other institutions are scrambling to cope with all of it. a lot to talk about tonight. cnn s tom foreman starts us off. reporter: nationwide, hospitalizations of children with covid are up. on average, nearly 50% in just one week. new york city has seen pediatric admissions jump to five times what they were. in washington, d.c., half the kids coming to children s national hospital are testing positive. all told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. that s not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because we see children who are hospitalized because of covid or in the icu because of covid. they are all unvaccinated. they are unvaccinated. parents are unvaccinated, siblings are unvaccinated. reporter: others fear the return to school next week could be even worse. i think that what we are going to see is once childre ....
live, from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with john vorse. we begin with the coronavirus pandemic with. many countries, including the u.s., now setting new infection records each day. right now, the united states is averaging more than 265,000 daily cases over the past week. according to the centers for disease control and prevention. the omicron variant accounts for nearly 60% of all new cases. the number of children admitted to hospital with covid is nearing a record, with an almost 50% jump in just the past week. and the food and drug administration is taking a closer look at the effectiveness of at-home antigen tests, which may be not as effective at detecting the omicron variant compared to the delta variant. but anthony fauci says these tests are till beneficial. here is our lead story from new york. reporter: a new surge in covid cases is bringing with it another spike in pediatric hospitalizations, up nearly 50% in a week nationwide. children still mak ....
more than 200 million americans are now fully vaccinated. and still, the country is breaking records for new infections, averaging more than 265,000 cases a day over the past week alone. that s according to johns hopkins university. the centers for disease control and prevention report close to 450,000 cases on monday alone. and that tops the previous one-day high of almost 300,000 back in january. now, we should point out these latest figures could be the result of a lag in reporting over the holidays. nonetheless, the number of children now admitted to hospitals with covid is nearing a new record. the cdc reports nearly a 50% jump in just the past week. now, access to testing remains a problem, as you can see there, right around the country. home test kits, meantime, are hard to find online, and in stores and people are lining up for hours at drive-through testing sites right around the country. cnn s alexander field has more now on covid s record setting rampage thro ....