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averaging more than 265,000 cases a day over the past week. now, that s according to data compiled by johns hopkins university. the centers for disease control and prevention, meantime, is now reporting close to 450,000 cases on monday alone in a 24-hour period. now, that tops their previous one-day high of almost 300,000 back in january. we should point out, of course, that these latest figures are most likely the result of a lag in reporting over christmas weekend. now, the number of children meantime admitted to hospitals with covid is nearing a new record. the cdc reports almost a 50% jump in just the past week. access to testing, of course, remains a problem right around the country. we ve seen the lines. home test kits are hard to find online and in stores. and as people line up for hours just to try and get a test, many of them at drive-through testing sites. we get more now from cnn s tom foreman reporting for us from washington. reporter: nationwide, hospital ....
hospitalizations worldwide nationwide, rather. spearheading legislation in congress for three decades, we look back at the legacy of one of america s post powerful politicians, senator harry reid. they promised to protect women s rights. the new taliban law restricts them even more. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it s wednesday, december the 29th. our new worries over the omicron surge could make weeks ahead difficult for hospital workers across the united states. joe biden s covid team says the country is in for a tough january. i suspect by the end of january things will peak, and there s no question that january will be filled with a lot of short-term challenges, hospital beds shortages, it s tough to handle this many cases at once. but i think if there is a silver lining, it s that when it comes out fast it s likely to go down even more quickly. well, the u.s. is averaging more than 265,000 cases a day over the past ....
we should note the number of hospitalizations are not rising at the same rate to date. the cdc lowering its estimate of the variant from 70 to 59%. that drop suggests while the new variant is on the rise, it was not infecting people at the same rate the agency had initially projected. pediatric hospitalizations are near their september peak. nationwide, hospitalizations of children with the virus have jumped on average nearly 50% in just one week. parents are understandable concerned as vaccination rates, particularly among the pediatric population, continue to lag, leaving many children vulnerable to infection. president biden now says the vaccine requirements for domestic travel could be imposed if his medical team recommend it. but dr. fauci said don t expect one for now. health officials are advising we should be bracing for case numbers to skyrocket in the new year. now to laeyla santiago in miami. we know sometimes the waits have been hours long. leyla. report ....
tom, what does the white house want us to know? that they expect to sign a contract next week for these 500 million at-home tests. they ve been criticized for shortages of tests. they re hoping this will warm up what has been a really bitter winter in many american households and at the white house, too. as the pandemic blizzard sweeps the country with an average of more than a quarter million new cases a day, another storm is engulfing the centers for disease control. facing sharp questions over its new dpguidelines. it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. the recommendation of five instead of ten isolation days for those testing positive but showing no symptoms then five days of masking, is aimed at people keeping working, but it s raising alarms, too. there is absolutely no data that i m aware about with the omicron that people coming out of isolation five days after they were first diagnosed with the virus. nothin ....
this sad news later in the hour. plus, new york city mayor bill de blasio claims to love small businesses after crushing them with mandates. one owner is here to respond. also in new york, multiple people arrested for protesting the city of austria s vaccine mandate at a burger king. we will speak to two of the protesters. and who is this year s biggest covid hypocrite? find out when we award the ingraham angle s 2021 superlatives. but first, let s take a trip down memory lane. back to 2020 presidential campaign when then-candidate joe biden told us this. president biden: i will put in place to deal with this pandemic was possibly. i ve already done it, i m not going to shut down the economy. i m not going to shut on the country but i am going to down the virus. sean: but how? what will he use to shutdown the virus? s then advisor and current chief of staff ron klain gave us a bit of a hint. we have a federal government for a reason. this kind of nationwide thr ....