the average of new cases has never been higher as we head into the third year of this pandemic. reporter: we keep hoping it will be better. this is not the season anyone wanted. we are over 250,000 average daily cases. that s a record nobody wanted to see. some of the most vulnerable among us are baring the brunt of it. nationwide, hospitalizations of children with covid are up. on average, nearly 50% in just one week. new york city has seen pediatric admissions jump to five times what they were. in washington, d.c., half the children coming are testing positive. that s not because omicron is uniquely targeting them. but because we see chirp hospitalized because of covid or in the icu because of covid. they are unvaccinated. parents are unvaccinated. reporter: that s why some believe the reopening of schools, especially those with covid safety measures, could reduce the spread of among kids. others are not convinced. what we will see is once children go back to scho
experts over whether there is a safety cost. the trouble is for the unvaccinated, the data doesn t really back up that they become noninfectious at five days. reporter: the isolation guidance doesn t differentiate between the vaccinated and the unvaccinated. it does say everyone should mask up for five days following isolation. and there s mounting pushback from union leaders from nurses this is when you should be tightening your controls, not lessening them. to flight attendants. the cdc should be loud and clear about impleltation here because no workers should be forced to come to work when they re still sick and that is what i believe we ll see here. we re very concerned about that. the wave of infections sweeping the country causing staffing shortages and forcing cancellations of thousands of flights during the busy holiday period. apple closing its new york city stores for browsing. maryland cutting back federal court operations. the cdc says the fast-movin
Pandemic record for covid-19 cases. the number of children hospitalized is sto skyrocketin. the january 6th committee is standing down after the biden administration pushed back at the panel apparently for first time. graphic video released of the police shooting of a teenage girl in los angeles. her family is speaking out about her death as officers pursued a suspect as a department store. they are sharing their grief and demanding transparency. welcome to our viewers around the world and the united states. i m jim acosta and you are in the situation room. we begin with the record breaking surge of covid-19 cases in the united states fuelled by the omicron variant. tom, this is very worrisome.