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averaging more than 265,000 cases a day over the past week. now, that s according to data compiled by johns hopkins university. the centers for disease control and prevention, meantime, is now reporting close to 450,000 cases on monday alone in a 24-hour period. now, that tops their previous one-day high of almost 300,000 back in january. we should point out, of course, that these latest figures are most likely the result of a lag in reporting over christmas weekend. now, the number of children meantime admitted to hospitals with covid is nearing a new record. the cdc reports almost a 50% jump in just the past week. access to testing, of course, remains a problem right around the country. we ve seen the lines. home test kits are hard to find online and in stores. and as people line up for hours just to try and get a test, many of them at drive-through testing sites. we get more now from cnn s tom foreman reporting for us from washington. reporter: nationwide, hospital ....
hospitalizations worldwide nationwide, rather. spearheading legislation in congress for three decades, we look back at the legacy of one of america s post powerful politicians, senator harry reid. they promised to protect women s rights. the new taliban law restricts them even more. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it s wednesday, december the 29th. our new worries over the omicron surge could make weeks ahead difficult for hospital workers across the united states. joe biden s covid team says the country is in for a tough january. i suspect by the end of january things will peak, and there s no question that january will be filled with a lot of short-term challenges, hospital beds shortages, it s tough to handle this many cases at once. but i think if there is a silver lining, it s that when it comes out fast it s likely to go down even more quickly. well, the u.s. is averaging more than 265,000 cases a day over the past ....
59%, suggesting that while the new variant was on the rise, it is not infecting people at the rate that the cdc just projected. pediatric hospitalizations are also near their september peak though. nationwide hospitalizations of children with the virus have jumped on average nearly 50% in just one week. parents understandably concerned as vaccination rates particularly among the pediatric population continue to lag leaving many children potentially vulnerable to infection. president biden says for now vaccine requirements for domestic travel could be imposed if his medical team recommends it, but dr. anthony fauci says don t expect one in the immediate future. as health officials are also advising that we should be bracing for case numbers to could sky rocket in the new year. let s get to leyla santiago who is live at a testing site in mimp. a miami. how long are people waiting for a test this morning? reporter: when we checked with the folks that made their way thr ....
omicron, they re not perfect. but to bottom line it, basing this on what dr. fauci said this morning, they are still useful. imperfect but useful. let s talk about what they re good for and what they re not quite as useful for. if this test says that you have covid, then you almost certainly have covid. if the test says you don t have covid, that s where you get more questions. now, the folks at abbott labs, they make the test widely used in the united states. we reached out to them. this is what they had to say. we ve conducted lab analyses and tests on the omicron variant from live virus including those from the first u.s. omicron case at equivalent sensitivity as other variants. that led us to think, hmm, how good has it been in general? this is the data on the cdc s website. let s pretend that you have covid. we know you have covid because you took a pcr test. we know you have covid and you have symptoms. the rapid test is going to be wrong 35% of the time. it s goi ....
escaped death. today we remember harry reid s remarkable life. and a diplomatic follow-up. we re now learning president biden plans a thursday phone call with russia s vladimir putin. just moments ago at a white house coronavirus briefing, the nation s top health officials reminded us about complacency as covid cases are skyrocketing in the u.s. they said data overseas points to the new variant being less dangerous to vaccinated people, but its exact severity especially for children is still to be determined, and a contract for billions of free home tests is expected to be completed next week. health officials are also defending new guidance to allow people who test positive to leave isolation sooner if they don t have symptoms. the cdc director told cnn they re following the science but also human behavior. it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. we have seen relatively low rates of isolation for all of this pandemic, so w ....