the judge handing the pop star a victory in her conservatorship battle announcer: this is nbc nightly news with lester holt good evening. we thought by now the worst was firmly behind us, but america s summer of recovery from covid is rapidly becoming a season of dread and frustration over americans who remain unvaccinated and highly vulnerable to the delta variant, which now more than half of new covid cases in this country. after weeks of growing confidence amid falling infection rates, a dramatic turn about under way tonight. infections, hospitalizations and deaths climbing again. crowded emergency rooms in some parts of the country fueling a sense of deja vu the number of americans 12 and older at least partially vaccinated now over 184 million. but the daily number of vaccinations has plummeted. miguel almaguer has details. reporter: the summer spike is catching experts by surprise who never expected numbers like these. tonight new infections, hospitalizations, e
season. of course it will be an amazing feeling. we understand it s different. we have to earn it. anything that happened in the past, you learned from it. it it is working to earn the outcome we want. reporter: georgia fans here in indy i talked to confident they are going to win despite losing seven in a row to alabama. their mind-set is can t lose to alabama forever, right? streaks are meant to be broken is what i ll say. i will say that. andy, thank you so much. we know that we ll be watching anxiously with you. and new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is monday, january 10th. i m john berman with brianna keilar. and what a sad morning for millions of americans who watched tv in the 80s and 90s. what a sad morning for the comedy community, which is just heart heartbroken. bob saget passed away. he was only 65. he played the perfectly awkward father, danny tanner, on the sitcom full house . he wa
omicron, they re not perfect. but to bottom line it, basing this on what dr. fauci said this morning, they are still useful. imperfect but useful. let s talk about what they re good for and what they re not quite as useful for. if this test says that you have covid, then you almost certainly have covid. if the test says you don t have covid, that s where you get more questions. now, the folks at abbott labs, they make the test widely used in the united states. we reached out to them. this is what they had to say. we ve conducted lab analyses and tests on the omicron variant from live virus including those from the first u.s. omicron case at equivalent sensitivity as other variants. that led us to think, hmm, how good has it been in general? this is the data on the cdc s website. let s pretend that you have covid. we know you have covid because you took a pcr test. we know you have covid and you have symptoms. the rapid test is going to be wrong 35% of the time. it s going to
the virus is taking no time off. the u.s. had a new single day record for infections, 440,000 not including at-home tests. julie: all this is prompting the white house to consider a new vaccine mandate for domestic air travel. south dakota gov government he continues to impose mandates on the country. this president has taken unprecedented action to impose on the liberties and freedoms of the american people. benjamin: david spunt is traveling with the president in delaware. good morning, david. good morning to you. a difficult morning when you look at those covid numbers specifically yesterday we reached the highest amount of daily cases since the beginning of the pandemic in early 2020. getting ready to enter the third year of this nightmare that s really stretched across the world. clearly those numbers not going in the right direction. the white house keenly aware of that situation all the way up to the president of the united states who is here in wilmington, del
we ll start with the latest headlines surrounding covid s new wave. the biden administration will soon be sending a half billion free tests to american homes, as pharmacies struggle to keep up with demand. more on the biden plan in just a moment. it comes as hospitals reach a breaking point thanks to the one-two punch of delta and omicron. professional hockey is being put on ice, literally, with a game last night postponed over covid concerns. new york city s outgoing mayor is paying people 100 bucks to get boosted. i like it. that works. while the incoming mayor scrubbed plans to celebrate his inauguration. i like it. get to work, baby. get to work. that s a good idea. atlanta reinstates an indoor mask mandate as health care workers in california will be required to get an extra shot. and what about the nation s schools? we ll get to the fast-moving developments on that front straight ahead. good morning and welcome to morning joe. it is wednesday, decemb