also, that offers substantial improvement and at this point, he does not see the need to adjust the formula. our booster vaccine regiments work against omicron. at this point, there is no need for a variant specific booster. and so the message remains clear. if you are unvaccinated, get vaccinated and particularly in the arena of omicron, if you are fully vaccinated, get your booster shot. alexandria field has more. the u.s. crosses a terrible threshold. 800,000 covid related deaths. delta s toll continues across the country as omicron cases spread. the variant now in 36 states. we expect to see the proportion of omicron cases here in the united states continue to grow in the coming weeks. early data suggests that omicron is more transmissible than delta, with a doubling time of about two days. cornell university shutting down early for the holiday break with more than 900 cases detected on campus. a high percentage of them identified as omicron in fully vaccinated pe
more than 100 subpoenas targeting trump officials and associates. in the next hour, the january 6th committee is proceeding as planned with a scheduled deposition of former white house chief of staff mark meadows. meadows is expected to be a no show. if that happens, the committee chair says they will hold meadows in contempt. let s begin with that breaking news on vaccines. cnn s chief medical correspondent dr. sanjay gupta with us now. you just spoke this morning with pfizer s chief scientific officer. this sounds like good news with the caveat that it is coming to us from the company that is responsible for the vaccine itself. what do we need to know this morning? yeah, we do need to hear to your point from the cdc and fda about this data, but what we are hearing from pfizer is potentially good news. the headline for me, when i spoke to him, was that basically, you know, we used to think of the significant protection against illness that people got from two doses of th
football coach. and today an american first, dr. rachel lavigne is sworn in as at admiral, the four transor transgender woman to hold a four-star rank. tonight the cap toll riot committee plans to refer steve bannon for criminal contempt. bannon, one of the former trump officials and allies who pledges not to cooperate with the january 6th investigation, and the former president himself now trying to stymie that committee s work. donald trump is suing to stop the national archives from forking over documents. trump lawyers say executive privilege applies, but the committee says former presidents have no such power, no such privilege, and the chairman says it s time to teach an accountability lesson to trump and to his allies. he refuses the subpoena like we expect him to continue to do then we re left with no other choice then to ask the justice department, lock him up and hold him in contempt and clearly that might send enough of a message that he ll agree to talk to us.
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