has become more and more clear just how damaged we as a country are. the insurrection exposed both the deepening fault lines in our population and cracks in the very structure of our democracy. it opened a wound many of us want to heal from but find ourselves quite honestly unable to. a sentiment president joe biden reiterated thursday on the anniversary of the attack. the way you have to heal is recognize the extent of the wound. you can t pretend. this is serious stuff. we got to face it. that is what great nations do. they face the truth. deal with it. and move on. president biden is right here. how can we heal when our cries for justice and accountability have largely gone unanswered, when the people and the party that stood to benefit from overturning the election results refused to even acknowledge the realities of what happened on that day? when after a year of investigation no one has been held accountable outside of some of the foot soldiers in trump s mob. a nat
another exactly case count record, nearly everyone seems to know at least one person with this virus. right now more kids are in hospitals being treated for covid than ever before at a time when they should be enjoying the holidays. schools once again are grappling with how to balance education with health and safety. massachusetts denied a teacher s union request to close schools monday for covid testing. but in washington, d.c., students must produce a negative test result to return to school. meanwhile, holiday travel, headaches persist. the faa warns it may be forced to delay flights as crew members call in sick. that s on top of more than 11,000 flight cancellations since christmas eve. adding to travel implications, the cdc has increased its risk for cruise ship travel to the highest level. the federal agency says you should avoid cruises regardless of your vaccination status. cnn s polo sandoval joins me now from new york city. polo, times square looked pretty full wit
national hospital are testing positive. all told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. that s not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because we see children who are hospitalized because of covid or in the icu because of covid. they are all unvaccinated. parents are unvaccinated, siblings are unvaccinated. reporter: others fear the return to school next week could be even worse. i think that what we are gaeigae going to see is once children going to school, within a week or two of schools opening is when we are going to see our highest numbers. reporter: amid the winter weather, the pandemic is roaring across the country with over a quarter million new cases now diagnosed daily. that s a record. this omicron variant is such a game-changer, in terms of its high, high transmissibility. it s like this big virus blizzard. reporter: hospitalizations are only about half of what they were last winter, but some state
variant as they are to older strains. this, as hospitals, schools, transportation networks, and other institutions are scrambling to cope with all of it. a lot to talk about tonight. cnn s tom foreman starts us off. reporter: 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 kids coming to children s national hospital are testing positive. all told, an average of more than 300 children are being hospitalized each day. that s not because current variants are uniquely targeting them but because we see children who are hospitalized because of covid or in the icu because of covid. they are all unvaccinated. they are unvaccinated. parents are unvaccinated, siblings are unvaccinated. reporter: others fear the return to school next week could be even worse. i think that what we are going to see is once children go b
fda about at-home antigen tests, it s a little confusing, the fda saying those tests are not as sensitive to detecting omicron, but the white house team stressed the at-home tests still offer, quote, an important use. jeremy diamond joins me. jeremy, i know you just spoke to the covid-19 response director. what did he tell you? reporter: that s right, i asked at the coronavirus briefing specifically about the 500 million happen at-home tests that the white house is set to ship to americans beginning next month. and the news that he gave me is that they re still in the process of finalizing the contract to obtain those. but he says he does expect that contract to be completed late next week. of course, that would be the end of the first week of january. meaning that americans likely won t begin to see see the at-home covid tests until end of january. he said the details are forthcoming still in terms exactly how the white house is going to finalize the delivery mechanism for