Doctors Worry About Covid Spread Ahead Of School Reopenings

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 31 December 2021

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Medical experts are encouraging Americans to stay home tonight for New Years Eve. Hospitals are slammed and schools aren’t sure how to reopen safely. Will the new year look too much like the last one? 100-mile-per-hour winds are spreading flames across neighborhoods in Colorado. Hundreds of homes are burning in the blink of an eye. We may now know what started the sudden fires. To learn more about how CNN protects listener privacy, visit cnn.com/privacy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Roll tide.
0:04.0	The lead starts right now.
0:06.8	Medical experts are encouraging Americans to stay home tonight, hospitals are slammed,
0:10.9	and schools aren't sure how to reopen safely.
0:13.8	Is the new year looking too much like the last one?
0:17.4	Hundred mile per hour winds spread flames across neighborhoods, burning hundreds of homes
0:21.8	in the blink of an eye.
0:23.5	Now we may know what started the sudden fires in Colorado.
0:30.1	And thank you for being a friend.
0:32.7	Beloved actress and American icon Betty White has passed away just a few weeks shy of
0:38.2	her 100th birthday.
0:44.6	And welcome to this special edition of the lead I'm Caitlin Collins in for Jake Tapper.
0:49.2	We start today with our health lead, a new year and new records as the Omicron variant
0:53.9	explodes across the United States.
0:56.3	But there is some encouraging news today out of South Africa where the Omicron variant
1:00.1	was first detected.
1:01.6	South Africa now relaxing some of its COVID restrictions as cases and hospitalizations
1:06.2	have sharply fallen off there, leading health experts to believe that South Africa has
1:10.4	already passed its peak of this horrible wave.
1:14.1	And after seeing that data, Dr. Anthony Fauci now thinks that cases in the United States
1:18.6	could peak by the end of January.
1:20.8	CNN's Tom Foreman starts us off with a look at how states across the United States are
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