County, kentucky school attendance dipped by roughly 20% within the first two weeks prompting the district to close for several days in atlanta morris brown college announced a two-week mask mandate because of an uptick in positive cases some hospitals in new york, massachusetts, and california are bringing back mask requirements the cdc director has this warning for the months ahead covid is here and we need to make sure we stay vigilant. reporter: the cdc s data show hospitalizations have been on the rise since july jumping more than 20% earlier this month. still, when you zoom out to consider what it was like during the height of the pandemic health officials aren t sounding the alarm yet but are closely watching a highly mutated emerging variant and hoping the next booster will slow its spread those shots are expected out the end of next month. with the flu and rsv likely to ramp up this fall doctors recommend having covid tests at home to help tell the difference experts belie
Emilie ikeda has more on the increase in cases and the return of masks in some parts of the country. reporter: across the country, kids are filing into classrooms, and with students back at a handful of schools, so is covid. almost all of the precautions, including regular testing have been taken down in schools. we re also seeing kids with all sorts of other colds and could haves and viruses, which make it very easy to pass a number of things including covid. reporter: in lee county, kentucky, school attendance dipped by 20%. in atlanta, morris brown college announced a two-week mask mandate because of an uptick in positive cases, and some hospitals in new york, massachusetts, and california are also bringing back mask requirements. cdc director mandy cohen has this warning for the months ahead. covid is here and we need to make sure we stay vigilant. the cdc s data show hospitalizations have been on the rise since july, jumping more than 20% earlier this
New covid-19 cases. that breaks the previous record of 38,000 cases. hospitalizations in new york are rising, but at a lower rate. data show hospitalizations rising 4.6% from thursday to friday just before christmas. amid all this, governor hochul announcing that new york will shorten the quarantine time for people who have covid-19 from ten days to five days. this shortened quarantine period for people known to work in the critical workforce. this includes nurses, police officers, cooks, bartenders, and waitstaff, servers. the move means that after a positive test, fully vaccinated people in the critical workforce can get back to work after five days after that covid result if they are asymptomatic and agree to wear their mask.