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[national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [national anthem] [cheers and applause] kayleigh: welcome to fox & friends on this beautiful saturday morning. what an appropriate way to start out the new year with the national anthem. it is january 1st, 2022. i am wishing all of you a happy new year. if you are up, i fully expect most of our viewers are sleeping in because they stayed up past midnight but not us here on fox & friends. joey. joey: no, i have to admit i enjoyed a good football game last night. might have been up a little bit later than i needed to. i might have heard the gunfire in georgia as the new year came in and some fireworks went off. hey, listen, we are here right now. i have got all the energy i can need after that win yesterday. i m ready for a great four hours of fox & friends. hey, listen, if you have a new year s resolution, email them to us at foxnews.com. [email protected] you are . mine is to ....
having a hard time finding covid tests. a problem that could last into 2022 and now many public school districts say they will require covid testing for students and staff. let s go to our experts that we have with us this evening dr. nicole saphier, fox news contributor and former assistant health secretary admiral brett giroir. welcome to both of you. thank you for having us. mike: from the new york times the u.s. breaks single day record hospitalizations and deaths however have not followed the same dramatic increase in the last two weeks. deaths are down by 5% with the daily average of 1221. while hospitalizations increased by just 15% to an average of 78,781 per day. while you obviously want to track cases, dr. saphier, are hospitalizations and fatalities really more meaningful metrics? well, absolutely. as of right now, as you can see, we really need to change our mindset and stop focusing on daily new case counts. as we know the virus is everywhere. it is ....
happy new year, gillian. i am anita vogel. live out west as fires rage. we begin with a special new year s eve edition of fox news live with a look at the world ringing in 2022. gillian: millions of americans are revving up to celebrate the new year, even amid a nationwide surge of new covered cases, concerns about the omicron variant front and center for other americans once again this new year s eve. the government putting in place limits on gatherings and for travel, both foreign and domestic. compounding the nation s worry is the testing shortage. people are still waiting in line for hours to get tests, then waiting days to get those results. anita: but we begin at the crossroads of the world where the ball is set to drop in a little less than 11 hours from now, and our laura ingle is live in times square. hi, laura. hello, ladies. welcome to the crossroads of the world, where the crowds are certainly smaller, but they are back this year and they are ....
and staff sickness causes disruption on the railways. in her first christmas broadcast since the death of prince philip, the queen is expected to give a very personal address tomorrow. and coming up, i can t say my name a revealing look at what it s like to live with a stammer. hello and welcome if you re watching in the uk or around the world. a glimmer of christmas hope may be on offer from new cononavirus data, suggesting that the omicron variant may be less likely to lead to serious illness than the delta variant. that s according to a uk senior health official. but drjenny harries from the uk health security agency warned it definitely isn t yet at the point where we could downgrade the serious threat of omicron and that more data is needed, particularly about the impact on elderly and more vulnerable patients. it comes as 200,000 first, second or booster appointments are being made available over the festive period across england as people are urged to getja ....