yeah, joining me now, dr. stan spinner, the pooed yacht tricks and urgent care. showing hospitalizations are increasing twice as fast, but it s not clear if the kids have been vaccinated. what are you seeing as this variant spreads? we are certainly seeing a large increase in the positivity rate of kids here in the community and we have seen our number of kids hospitalized here nearly quad quadruple. and they may be vaccinated or partially vaccinated, and even in our adolescents, and so many
period for its workers who experience a breakthrough coronavirus case. right now the isolation period is set at ten days. airlines want it to be down to five days to keep more workers on the job. they say that will avoid more issues like the one we have seen just now and also issues like we saw during the fall when airlines had to cancel thousands of flights, kates. you see those issues snowballing as the variant spreads. thanks, pete. also at this hour, the white house reversing course. president biden says he plans to lift covid travel restrictions imposed on african nations. let s get over to the white house. joe johns is standing by. what is the white house saying? reporter: the white house always said this was a temporary measure, and now they say the cdc has made progress in understanding the omicron variant. also they say there s more confidence that vaccines do work, especially when people go ahead and get the booster shot. so given all of that, the white house has a bit
is the omicron covid variant spreads, the school requiring covid vaccines for all staff and for students. nyu announcing this week that vaccine booster will be required by january 18th. laura: california reimplemented its indoor mask mandate impacting businesses across the state. one of those frustrated business owners, the co-owner of film of fit joins me know. good morning, the full changed this week and now people going into your gym, whether vaccinated or not, when you heard this was going to be the new what went through your head? good morning. what went through my head, i m just in shock. i don t know what else to do. this is ridiculous, the mask mandate, we all know they don t help, there s no evidence that proves that it slows the spread and it is sending the wrong
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well, there are some things that are unknown, but one thing is becoming increasingly unclear, which is how rapidly the new variant spreads. so if it spreads a free to add a bit days it means that in one week you are going to have eight times as many infections, in two weeks 64 times as many and in three weeks 512 times as many and in three weeks 512 times as many and in three weeks 512 times as many, so we cannot afford to wait, we need to act now or we are going to be in very, very hot water indeed and even if it is less severe and we don t know that yet, it would still mean with so many cases that they would be huge numbers of hospitalisations and deaths, so the simple fact of the matter is we cannot afford to dilly dallying and we can t act now. in terms of what we do, it seems to me the first thing of course as vaccination, but vaccination is going to take a while and it takes a while for vaccinations to kick in, so the things we need to immediately another one, the more contacts y