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hi, everybody. it is 10:00 a.m. eastern, 7:00 pacific. i m yasmin vassoughian in for jose diaz-balart. we have a lot to get to this morning, including the big news from the cdc. new guidelines for those two test positive for covid are exposed to the virus. here is what you need to know. those who test positive but have no symptoms should isolate for five days instead of ten and wear a mask for five days. the new guidelines apply to everybody, including the unvaccinated. the quarantine time for someone exposed to someone with covid has also been cut. those boosted or vaccinated within six months can skip quarantine, test on day five, and wear a mask for ten days. those who are not boosted or unvaccinated or were vaccinated more than six months ago should quarantine for five days instead of ten, and then wear a mask for fen days. dr. anthony fauci telling nbc news the new guidelines are partly driven by worker shortages. we want to make sure, particularly among essentia ....
infects. also with omicron now detects in all states, and d.c. and puerto rico, the biden administration is lifting the travel ban on seven african nations and south africa. let s begin with lucy kafanov. right here in new york, this is the epicenter of the pandemic when it started to two years ago and just broke another record in terms of case counts. reporter: that is right, poppy. more than 44,000 new cases in new york. that is up 14% from the previous record breaking day. but there is good news heading into the holiday weekend. the governor there announcing a shortening of the isolation period for fully vaccinated essential workers. they could return to their jobs after just five days if they present no symptoms. this is as the nation str struggles to contain the latest covid surge. yes, we re here to make toys. on the eve of christmas, holiday cheer tempered about omicron as new coronavirus cases race toward record highs. the u.s. averaging more than 180,000 ....
to be as rapidly spreading as it did. that is not going to age well for joe biden. the president claims the new variant claim out of nowhere even of the white house warned everybody about it weeks ago. another cdc director says he is full of it. watch. we anticipated this. this is what we have been preparing for. there have been times where other countries have the virus before us on the one and a half to three day range and so this is exactly what we anticipated. also being holed up in a long way to once to get a test. and the shortage added at home once. but let s not play into biden s doom and gloom winter of death message. there is a very good news on the covid front. a new study says omicron as an 80% lower risk of hospitalization. and even though biden doesn t want to talk about this, the fda just authorized potential game changing antiviral pills to treat covid. they greatly decreases hospitalizations and deaths. they could become available in the next comi ....
have not yet gotten it. just the other day former president trump announced he got his booster shot. maybe one of the few things he and i agree on. tonight, we are learning about an exciting new development that may help point the way, to a post pandemic reality. defense one reports that scientists at the walter reed army institute of research, expect to announce in a few weeks, that they have developed, a single shot vaccine, that pretext against covid-19, in all of its variants, including omicron. even, so the cdc is forecasting a grim scenario for the coming. weeks of washington post of the agency today predicted a massive wave of omicron cases, by next month. when the new covid cases now well over 140,000 daily, federal officials are now focusing on moving as quickly as possible to turn things around. we have a lot of disease out there now. what we are working right now to do is to decrease the amount of severe disease, and death. if we can decrease the amount ....
the new strategy comes as people are spending another day waiting in long lines to get tested. preparing to join the huge numbers of people who are getting away for the christmas holiday. all of this as restaurants and other small businesses please for help to stay afloat, as positive cases shut down dining rooms and cancel entertainment, including broadway shows and pro sports. and customers go away. and then you have companies with some very tough decisions to make, whether to bring employees back to the office or send them back home. all as washington considers what it can do to help. and democrats continue to search for an opening to push forward with their huge climate and social spending bill, build back better, as it s called. we ll look at what comes next with democrat senator, alex padilla. we re also watching for juries for verdicts in three high-profile trials. but we begin this morning with omicron overwhelming the country, becoming the dominant variant in t ....