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staff with respect, how can he treat us first. cdc recommending boosters foragers 12 to 15. no data was really presented to show that a booster in younger populations actually decrease their very low risk of severe illness. california congressman eric swalwell spotted hanging out maskless. we have no bias when it comes to public health initiative. none of the people pushing them follow them themselves and we all know that age you be my glass of wine i ll be your glass of whiskey you be my sunny day i ll be your shade tree. steve: it s 6:01. currently clear there with a high today of about 40. right now it is 38 degrees as we look in live. good morning, folks on this, the 6th dave january, 2022. it s good happy new year, brian and ainsley. ainsley: welcome back, steve. it s so good to have you back. did you have a fun vacation? steve: you know, it was we gathered together as a family and then we a lot of people trade gifts. we traded omicron. ....
guidelines as we deal with the new variant and this. 59% of cases in the u.s. here are the new omicron variant. the seven-day average here continues the bad record breaking we ve seen. in fact, we have another record high today. over 253,000 daily covid cases. we re also seeing more people going to the hospital. the number of children hospitalized with covid is also rising. most of them though not vaccinated. so. in respect, it follows some of the trends we ve seen. now, i want to make sure that we all understand the moment we re in. while the covid rate, the number of cases is hitting these all time highs, and that s a big concern. the rate of hospitalization is still actually down. and things are not as deadly as they were last year at this time, although case rate is as bad as last winter. so you can keep those things in mind as we see what s sxhapg the vaccine still helps in so many ways, including keeping the death rate lower. the cdc is cutting the isolation time ....
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 ....
our hospitals than ever before, and the overwhelming majority are unvaccinated. the ad follows a similar plea from hospitals in minnesota earlier this month, now facing omicron, pleading for help. that part of it all feels like it was preventable. we had a level of protection that was offered that people declined, and now they re taking up beds that we know we need for other patients that need surgery for their heart disease or for their cancer, and those patients don t have access to the care that they need right now. all of us working on the front lines, health care providers, doctors, nurses, respiratory techs are going to feel the impact of those individual decisions. hospitals and emergency rooms were crowded before omicron came. we had a delta surge, we had e.r.s that are full of tired workers exhausted, not enough nurses e. covid now the third leading cause of death after heartland disease and cancer. being bombarded with new restrictions and restrictions ....
build back better bill which would significantly impand the country s social safety yet. senator joe manchin a key moderate democrat announcing this morning he is officially a no on the legislation. i cannot vote to continue with this piece of legislation. i just can t. i ve tried everything humanly possible. i can t get there. a lot to get to. we ll begin with the pandemic. new cases and hospitalizations rising in the u.s. the delta variant fueling most of these increases right now. but the omicron strain is also spreading quickly in much of the country. one expert saying there is a tsunami coming from the unvaccinated. in new york people are waiting in long lines for coronavirus tests as you see there. nearly a third of broadway shows are shuttered once again, just months after reopening. the nba, nhl, and the nfl are postponing games as teams deal with outbreaks. and some major colleges and universities including harvard and yale, are returning to remote learning ....