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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell 20211228 19:02:00

Complicated, and health experts say, not purely medical. we want to get people back to the jobs, particularly those with essential jobs, to keep our society running smoothly. if you are an hourly wage worker and you feel reasonably fine, maybe you have mild symptoms, you re much less likely to get tested if you know that a positive result will mean ten days of not being able to work, of being isolated. reporter: one sector already struggling, vaccinated healthcare workers suffering breakthrough infections of the highly transmissible omicron variant. and being sent home. that s still an impossible strain on an already strained healthcare system. so, i understand the pressure to get workers back earlier. reporter: omicron is spreading so fast, the impact is now going far beyond the widely reported holiday travel problems. in new york city, apple has closed all its stores to browsing shoppers. in maryland, courts are cutting back their winter schedules. all over college and prof ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell 20211228 19:14:00

An n95 is the best so you can imagine an upgrade in the requirement there. okay, dr. abdul el-sayed, thank you. thank you. so, house lawmakers investigating the capitol riots say they could release an interim report of their findings by the summer. a source tells cnn a final report on what happened on january 6th could be released in the fall. cnn s whitney wild joins me from washington. whitney, clearly they want to get it out before the midterms. reporter: well, exactly. now we have this specific timeline and what this represents is that we re getting into this more public phase of not only the investigative process but also the findings. what we know now is that the house select committee plans to have public hearings sometime next year, sometime first quarter and then a few months after that, they will release this interim report with the final report by the fall. it s difficult to extract the political timeline from the house select committee s timeline, incidental, planne ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell 20211228 19:03:00

With canceled or postponed games. and hospitals are seeing a surge in cases among children. not because omicron is uniquely targeting them but because we see children who are hospitalized because of covid or in the icu because of covid. they re all unvaccinated. they re unvaccinated, the parents are unvaccinated, the siblings are unvaccinated. reporter: that s why some medical professionals believe the reopening of schools, especially those with thorough covid safety measures, could reduce the spread among kids. although others are not convinced. i think that what we re going to see is once children go back to school within a week or two of schools opening is when we re going to see our highest numbers. reporter: that said, in new york city, where the cases are skyrocketing right now, officials say the bells will ring, the doors will open, and students will be expected back in class next week, and i imagine many school districts across the country will follow suit. alisyn? ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell 20211228 19:59:00

Donned the under the weather shield that her mom bought from amazon at the beginning of the pandemic. the texas family had christmas dinner outdoors. it was my sister s idea. she wanted to be in the shield. guys, look what i found. why don t i put this on and we just stay outside. reporter: and this guy anthony herda just stayed outside the window at his michigan family s home. cake and presents were left outside for him like cookies for santa. in ireland, thomas rike posted this photo of his brother peter in a van outfitted with lights. he had a covid close contact and just pulled the van up alongside the window and dined with the others gathered inside. it s a weird holiday being handed presents with a grab-it ....

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Transcripts for CNN CNN Newsroom With Alisyn Camerota and Victor Blackwell 20211228 19:58:00

. the omicron surge has people getting creative as they try to include covid-positive loved ones in their holiday celebrations. jeanne moos shows us how going home for the holidays ain t what it used to be. reporter: santa isn t the only one who got decked out for the holidays. all by myself nothing shameful about the covid christmas hut of shame, unless you re a brother teasing your sister while making it possible for her to join in the festivities. best brothers ever someone posted. y all still going to get it commented someone else. but the griswolds weren t the only ones not letting a positive covid test turn things negative. let me in! no, don t let her in. reporter: even the dad got into the teasing as maddie hanes ....

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