americans should prepare for the spread of omicron. senator joe manchin deals a blow to joe biden s build back better. peng shuai s latest interview. announcer: live from london. this is cnn newsroom with isa soares. hello, everyone. welcome to the show. monday, december 20th. nearly two years since the covid-19 pandemic turned the world really upside down. the threat is far from over. one u.s. health experts says we re beyond counting the waves, the country is facing a tsunami. it is now being detected in 45 states. you can see on your screen. experts say it s just a matter of time before omicron accounts for a majority of new cases. it comes as the u.s. is already grappling with the surge driven by the delta variant. countries now averaging more than 130,000 a day infections a day and experts warn omicron will only add fuel to that fire. have a listen. we are going to see a significant stress in some regions of the country on the hospital system, particularly
boosted but we want to stay on air. we do. we do. we want to bring you all of the information you need for this holiday season. let s begin with the covid contradictions. americans trying to live with a resurgent virus for christmas week. so consider this. millions lined up to watch the new spider man in crowded theaters. and yet new york state broke its record sunday for the highest single day case count for the third day in a row. folks, we are talking over 22,000 new covid cases reported for a single day. this is not omicron. this is the delta variant and this return to life indoors that s driving these numbers. and yet we still haven t gotten the testing right in this country. look at this. people lined up at testing sites for hours. i was one of them. results taking longer and longer. rapid tests virtually impossible to find at your local drugstore. i have a couple of friends that haven t been vaccinated did catch covid or have scares so trying to play it safe for
what does a wave of new cases mean? the age of vaccinations? and we are getting a dose of good news this morning, moderna reports preliminary data shows its booster shot significantly increased antibody levels, it comes as experts including dr. anthony fauci are warning about the impact of the omicron variant. this virus is extraordinary. it has a doubling time of anywhere from two to three days. right now, in certain regions of the country, 50% of the isolates are omicron, which means it s going to take over. it s going to be a tough few weeks to months as we get deeper into the winter. right now, the average number of daily covid cases being reported in the u.s. 130,000, that s up from an average of 70,000 new cases just last month. new york seeing an average of 16,000 new cases each day, that s up 154% in less than a week and the covid surge has new york city s new year s eve celebration plans up in the air. the mayor says they will decide whether to go ahead with the
welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is monday, december 20th. i m john berman. brianna is off. erica hill joins me this morning. we do begin with breaking news. moderna released new preliminary data about its covid-19 booster. it says it does increase antibody levels against the omicron variant. what that means for youroverall protection may be clear. it comes as one expert warns as a viral blizzard this winter fueled by omicron. dr. fauci said americans should brace for a tough few months. this virus is extraordinary. it has a doubling time of anywhere from two to three days. right now, in certain regions of the country, 50% of the isolates are omicron, which means it is going to take over. it will be a tough few weeks and months as we get deeper into the winter. st right now the average number of new daily cases in the u.s. is 130,000, up from an average of 70,000 new cases at the beginning of november. in new york, it appears to be
democrats run i understand it s highly complicated that to get to the substance of this pacific s but this is a major failure. steve: a major failure that s what the biden regime so when you look at the metastasizing number and then to come to the conclusion the whole biden thing let s keep burning out by completely corrupt this whole biden thing is a total failure. it s not just a failure of the legislative agenda, that is the good news. any reasonable person would want that to fail the giant spending bill to send america into european centralized welfare state everything running from washington dc by a monstrous federal bureaucracy and the voting rights bill of blatant attempt by democrats to read election rules nationwide and then to save the republic for their democracy in the 2020 election. yes it saw historic numbers of people voting include among all racial groups and as the end of america or something. so the failure of the legislation is the failure we can take but w