Administration is taking a closer look at the effectiveness of athome Antigen Tests. The tests are still beneficial. Our reporters are covering the developments from london to beijing. Tom foreman has our lead story, reporting in from washington. Reporter nationwide, hospitalizations of children with covid are up, on average, nearly 50 in just one week. New york city is seeing pediatric admissions jump to fivetimes what they were. In washington, d. C. , half the kids coming to Childrens National hospital are testing positive. All told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. Thats not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because we see children that are hospitalized because of covid, or icu because of covid, theyre unvaccinated. Theyre unvaccinated, the parents are unvaccinated, the siblings are unvaccinated. Reporter others fear the return to School Next Week could be even worse. I think what were going to see is once children go back
We should note the number of hospitalizations are not rising at the same rate to date. The cdc lowering its estimate of the variant from 70 to 59 . That drop suggests while the new variant is on the rise, it was not infecting people at the same rate the agency had initially projected. Pediatric hospitalizations are near their september peak. Nationwide, hospitalizations of children with the virus have jumped on average nearly 50 in just one week. Parents are understandable concerned as Vaccination Rates, particularly among the pediatric population, continue to lag, leaving many children vulnerable to infection. President biden now says the Vaccine Requirements for Domestic Travel could be imposed if his medical team recommend it. But dr. Fauci said dont expect one for now. Health officials are advising we should be bracing for case numbers to skyrocket in the new year. Now to Laeyla Santiago in miami. We know sometimes the waits have been hours long. Leyla. Reporter yeah, kaitlan. We a
Police chase. Now were learning the gunman was spouting extremist, violent views online. Welcome to the lead. Im jake tapper. We start with our health lead and the Biden Administrations top doctor is on the defensive somewhat today amid a growing chorus of concern and complaints about the cdcs shortened recommended isolation period for some people who catch covid. On cnn this morning, the cdc director dr. Rochelle walensky said several areas of science backed their decision but admitted the changes were partially driven by americans being fed up and refusing to follow the longer tenday guideline already in place. In just moments, dr. Anthony fauci will join us live to discuss all of this and much more. But were going to start with tom foreman who takes a closer look at how hospitals are preparing for a possible surge of patients as Omicron Cases explode. The white house expects to sign a contract for a half billion athome covid texts next week to help americans through the pandemic bli
Health care system. The steepest rise is in Los Angeles County which has reported at least 6500 new cases every day for the last week. That includes over 9,000 infections on tuesday alone. But that increase has not yet translated into a comparable rise in hospitalizations. Which remain a fraction of what they were at this time last year. It is also unclear how many of those recent hospitalizations are due to omicron or the still present Delta Variant as the cdc revised its earlier counts. And cdc director Rochelle Wallinski goes on to clarify why they shortened the covid isolation guidelines. Many of those cases are mildly symptomatic, if not asymptomatic and among those who have vaccinated and what will people do when people need to get back to work. So from what youre saying it sounds like this decision had just as much to do as it did with the science . Well, so it really had a lot to do with what we thought people would be able to tolerate. Well that guidance relaxes more colleges
ronson chan is one of the most well known journalists in hong kong. he s a fierce defender ofjournalists rights. yells. the bbc has been following his life since the early days of the national security law. in december 2021, stand news, one of hong kong s last independent media outlets, was raided by the national security police. senior editors were arrested and detained. the charge publishing seditious material. ronson worked there as an editor. on that morning, national security police came to ronson s door. those found guilty of violating the national security law could face life in prison. ronson was taken away for questioning, then released, but his colleagues remain in custody. as chairman of the journalists association, he has long been seen as a possible target. i won t comment on anything right now, 0k? i have a meeting with my colleagues first, 0k? it s been nine months since we last heard from ronson. ronson was recently arrested after a confrontation with the p