while 2021 was the year of the vaccine, while national immunization programs began in many countries, the death toll from covid, compared to the year before, without vaccines has almost doubled. according to data from johns hopkins university, as well as the w.h.o., 1.8 million people died from covid in 2020. this year, the virus has claimed about 3.5 million lives. the head of the organization says with the twin threat of the omicron and delta variants and without a collective global response, this pandemic is set to get worse. delta and omicron are twin threats that are driving up cases to record numbers. i m highly concerned that omicron, being more transmisible, circulating at the same time as delta, is leading to a tsunami of cases. in the united states, the national guard is being deployed for more health care workers. now, with omicron in the mix, new forecasting from the centers of disease control updates 44,000 new covid deaths over the next month. tom foreman ha
yes. just as adults have been getting boosters or children over 16 have been getting boosters, now we re hearing that soon 12 to 15-year-olds will be able to get boosters so let s take a look at the numbers and what it means for this age group. so as we speak about 4 million children ages 12 to 15 are six months past their second shot, meaning once they can get boosters they will be eligible for boosters. another 4.7 million have been vaccinated more recently so that means they would be able to get boosters in the coming months. ryan, really the most important number here is an unfortunate number which is a third of children this age haven t even gotten one shot had. the initial vaccination is even more northern than the booster and more than a third of 12 to 15-year-olds have not even gotten one shot so that needs to be improved, but certainly good news that this age group can get boosters and we know that this helps fight omicron. probably a lot of parents somewhat reli
i m john avlon with kaitlan collins. and we begin with the cdc cutting the recommended isolation period for many infected americans in half. the agency now reducing the number of days from 10 to 5 if you are asymptomatic. the cdc also is now recommending the same amount of time for vaccinated people to quarantine if they are exposed to the virus with no quarantine at all if you are boost. tr dr. anthony fauci says it is part of an effort to get people back to work faster amid major concerns about staffing shortages at hospitals, airlines and businesses because of the omicron surge. president biden is now grappling with the failure that could have been foreseen as the omicron wave has exposed shortages in the u.s. and access to testing. many frustrated americans are now waiting in long lines for tests if they can get them at all. speaking to governors on monday, the president conceded that steps he took to scale up testing capacity weren t enough to meet the demand. we wen
the agency now reducing the number of days from ten to five if you re asymptomatic. the cdc also now recommending the same amount of time for vaccinated people to quarantine if they have been exposed to the virus, with no quarantine at all if you re boosted. dr. anthony fauci says the new changes are part of an effort to get people back to work faster, amid major concerns about staffing shortages at hospitals, airlines and businesses across the country, because of the omicron surge. and president biden is grappling with a failure that could have been foreseen. the omicron wave has exposed shortages in access to testing. many americans are wasting in long lines for tests, if they can get them at all. speaking to governors on monday, the president acknowledged that steps to scale up testing capacity were not enough to meet demand. it went from no over the counter tests in january, to 46 million in october. 100 million in november. and almost 200 million in december. it is n