the american nurses association says it is deeply concerned about the change, citing insufficient evidence and concern for health care workers safety. everything we re going to do right now is going to be imperfect. just accept that right now. we don t know a lot of the things we wish we d know. but what we do know and what is emerging here is that this country is going to be in the soup just in the next few weeks with so many cases and so many locations that we re going to see critical infrastructure as well as health care challenged. take a look at this. for the first time since omicron hit, an uptick in hospitalizations. that s something to watch with data catching up from the holiday weekend. the number now almost doubling in the last eight weeks. michigan is one of several states to hit peak hospitalizations this month. the state department of health says it isn t following the new cdc isolation guidelines and it s sticking with its own rules while they wait for more
tensions over ukraine, no doubt, on top of that agenda. and mourners pay their respects to antiapartheid hero archbishop desmond tutu. we ll go live to africa. announcer: live from london, this is cnn newsroom with max foster. it s thursday, december 30th, with just two days left in 2021. we are now seeing the coronavirus pandemic explode right around the globe. according to johns hopkins university, the world is averaging an all-time high of more than a million new infections a day. experts warn things will only get worse. this virus will continue to evolve and threaten our health system if we don t improve the collective response. concerned omicron will be more transmissible, circulating at the same time as delta is leading to a tsunami of cases. infections are also rising quickly in the u.s.. the country is averaging more than 300,000 new cases a day in the past week, and that s another record. johns hopkins reports close to 490,000 cases on wednesday. and more
could lead to more freedom over women s own bodies, and that could then end up damaging certain societal and family norms and traditions and lead to shameful behavior. women s rights activists say there is one objective only, and that is to ensure that jordan s female population has the same rights as its male one. arwa damon, cnn, istanbul. arwa damon, thank you very much. new days continues right now. new day continues right now. welcome to our viewers in the united states and all around the world. it is thursday, december 30th. two days left until 2022. i m john avlon with kaitlan collins. good morning. good morning, john. all right. this morning, the u.s. shattering its record of daily new coronavirus cases as the highly contagious omicron variant spreads rapidly throughout the country ahead of new year s. nationwide, daily new cases hitting a record average of 300,000 cases this week. the last time the number hit that peak, close to that, was even in january.
party, with all the bells and whistles and everybody hugging and kissing and wishing each other a happy new year, i would strongly recommend that this year we do not do that. yeah, so if that were your plans, sorry about that. there is also been growing pushback from frontline workers to new cdc guidelines cutting the amount of suggested days to isolate and quarantine in half. the american nurses association saying it is deeply concerned about the changes, citing insufficient evidence and concern for healthcare workers safety. the flight attendant union is also raising a red flag. now, michigan is one of several states hitting pandemic hospitalizations this month. the state department s help now says it will not adopt the shorter isolation quarantine guidelines until it reviews the evidence. while it waits for more information from the cdc, specifically for special populations, and high risk settings. michigan s health officials say this is not the time to relax. let s ge
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