in a matter of weeks. models show if we don t do so we could be up to several hundred thousand cases a day, similar to what it was in january. that s the kind of world she sees if more people don t get vaccinated and if we all don t start wearing masks indoors while in public, as annoying as that is. trying to get approval as quickly as possible and as we re learning, that sense of urgency apparently extend to booster shot. saying a national booster strategy is being worked on. we ll have more on that shortly. first, a place where is surging. florida, which is now seeing a 587% increase in patients today, old and young, compared to a month ago. i admitted a perfectly healthy 1-year-old woman, perfectly healthy 25-year-old. our average age is at is 15-year-old mark and we see patients infected with serious respiratory problems as young as in their 30s. florida leads the nation in children hospitalized with covid, which is why school districts decided this week to follo
prostitution? you would deny it and then talk about the deep state. they lie about me because i tell the truth about them, and i m not going to stop. so when you see the leaks and the lies and the falsehoods and the smears, when you see the anonymous sources and insiders forecasting my demise, know this. they aren t really coming for me. they re coming for you. i m just in the way. they re not after me, they re after you. i m just in the way. if that sounds familiar, that s because former president donald trump posted a meme of those same words back when he had a twitter account, remember those days? gaetz, by the way, was speaking at an event sponsored by women for america first. he talked to women about women. there is something else. this is the same group that organized the january 6th rally right before the capitol riot, the same kind of disinformation that led to the bloody siege at the capitol was on full display last night. do you think the trump supporters that
live from cnn center, this is cnn newsroom with rosemary church. good to have you with us. the biden administration is struggling to deal with the surprisingly swift spread of covid cases. at the same time, is trying to reassure an exasperated american public. the president admitted during an interview with abc that nothing has been good enough. yet insisted the u.s. is better prepared now than during the earlier surges. still, long lines like these proved the demand for covid tests is far exceeding the supply. americans desperately want to spend time with their loved ones this holiday season, and feel safe doing so. here s cnn s jeff zeleny. reporter: joe biden acknowledging that his administration has struggled to keep up with the omicron variant of the covid-19 pandemic. clearly marking this surge in cases here in the u.s. he said simply nothing has been good enough. he was defensive in one hand on an abc news interview. but also tried to really explain why no one co
into next year because of what s already happened. plus, house speaker nancy pelosi today seemingly open to side-stepping the filibuster after senate republicans blocked yet another voting rights bill. the most important vote right now in the congress of the united states is a vote to respect the sanctity of the vote, the fundamental basis of our democracy. one vote that the filibuster could enable to go forward. that would be the vote. and we head now to the breaking news out of wilmington, delaware. president biden meeting with senator joe manchin and chuck schumer. look, mike, the pressure is on to pass both infrastructure bills this week. what kind of difference do you think this could make to senator manchin with getting him on board with the plans? reporter: well, every conversation that this president has with the key holdouts at this stage of the negotiations, both senator joe manchin and kyrsten sinema would obviously be crucial to getting to a deal. i ll rem
approach on the night side of the planet. and let s dance, a new album of previously unreleased david bowie tunes is due be made public. we talk to the records producer later. hello and welcome to the programme. they could be breakthrough in the way we treat covid 19. a new drug because the risk of hospitalisation by about half. if authorised by regulators the new drug, which comes in the form of appeal, would be the first oral antiviralfor covid 19. this is the first covid pill. trial results suggest it can cut hospitalisations or deaths by half. the news of the efficacy of this particular antiviral is obviously very good news. the company, when they briefed us last night, had mentioned that they will be submitting their data to the fda imminently. the data are impressive. pills were given to 775 elderly or medically at risk patients within five days of them showing coronavirus symptoms. the data from a phase three trial showed 7.3% of patients on the drug were hospitalised,