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asymptomatic and if you keep wearing a mask. it is welcome news for industries struggling with staffing shortages amid the latest covid surge. airlines, hospitals, others all dealing with massive disruptions. several states are now nearing peak pandemic level hospitalizations. new infections fueled by the highly contagious omicron variant are rising rapidly. the u.s. now averaging over 237,000 cases a day. that represents a 66% jump over the last week. cnn s senior medical correspondent elizabeth cohen is here now with more. elizabeth, some may be confused by this new cdc guidance. there s still a downforce. what does it all mean? first of all, people are confused because it s confusing. this guidance is extremely difficult to understand, and i think it s really going to be controversial. some people, experts i ve talked to said this is right way to go, others have said, hmm, this could be problematic, especially as schools go back into session next week. let s take a ....
but is it? bondi: what is the rest of the country? i don t know, but it s that place where they all leave and come here. i took a walk through this beautiful world felt the cool rain on my shoulder found something good in this beautiful world i felt the rain getting colder sha la la la la sha la la la la la sha la la la la sha la la la la la la bondi: i can go to the desert, but i am not going to get there by accident. but that s part of the whole experience of the desert is that you know, it ain t friendly, it ain t nice, it ain t good, you know? you re, you re out here, you know, a half a mile. it doesn t matter if you re a half a mile out or you re 20 miles out. you know, there s no reason to walk a mile further, because you re already in infinite desolation. sin city was true, it was real. part of moving out here was you were never going to see the family again. i mean, that was it. i m moving to vegas and you ain t coming to see me and i ....
vaccination, which i disagree with. i think for part of caring from one another, the dictum of jesus is love one another, show compassion, show mercy to each other, sending the message is that if we want to act like jesus in these kind of times, we take care of each other. if we gather in celebration, we have to do so safely, comfortably, and we have to give to one another that gift of peace. and part of that is health. and feeling like we re gathering in a healthy environment. and so i really hope as people gather in celebration, to celebrate the birth of christ, who was about mercy, and compassion, and love of one another, that we keep that in mind. it is not about us. i don t think there is a reason to say i m not going to get vaccinated today, you know, maybe a health reason, but then you can t come to church. you have a responsibility to one another. father edward beck, rabbi ann brener, thank you for joining us this morning. thank you, both. thank you. and ....
immunocompromised americans who aren t well protected by vaccines. an effective drug from astrazeneca. the u.s. government only ordered enough for a 10th of the people eligible for it. cnn medical correspondent elizabeth cohen joining us now. elizabeth, good morning. reporter: good morning. ye is, the situation is as the numbers are rising, we are seeing cases rise but not seeing hospitalizations go up as much. one group of americans that i don t think we talk about as much as we should and that s the immune compromised. folks who are immune compromised, millions of them, did not get a response to the vaccine in the same way healthy people did. they are now vulnerable to covid-19 because they didn t get the antibody response they should have. so i want to introduce you to four of them. one is diane barren. she s in florida. she has cancer. diane ellis is in arkansas. eris bowden in hawaii. candace in hawaii. cancer patients, they re immune compromised. a drug can help ....
good morning to our viewers here in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, december 23rd. and it s getaway day for millions of holiday travelers. expected to be one of the busiest travel days of the entire year. this despite the alarming rise of a new variant which is now everywhere. in the three weeks since omicron was first identified in the united states, the variant is now in all 50 states, washington, d.c., and puerto rico. it accounts for 90% of new coronavirus cases nationwide. president biden last night addressing criticism of his administration s fight against covid, specifically that they didn t see the omicron variant coming. how did you get it wrong? how did we get it wrong? nobody saw it coming. nobody in the whole world. who saw it coming? did the administration expect a highly transmissible variant. sure, it s possible. it s possible there could be other variants coming along. what do you plan for? you respond to it. and i ....