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A top health advisor in the city says, we've never seen anything like this before.

Dr. J. Varma says the number of positive COVID tests in the city says we've never seen anything like this before dr j varma says the number of positive covid tests in the city has doubled over the past three days the positivity rate is now

7.8% all because the omicron variant evades the vaccine dr anthony f Fauci on ABC's Good Morning America said the

Omicron variant will soon be the dominant variant here in the U.S. It has an extraordinary

ability to transmit efficiently and spread. President Biden's chief medical advisor said

vaccination is still the key way to fight the pandemic. Getting people who have been holding off about getting vaccinated, absolutely need to get

vaccinated. And importantly, is boosters. People have been fully vaccinated to get your booster

when you become eligible. Karen Travers, ABC News, Washington.

Breakthrough cases are now hurting Broadway. Several shows had to cancel performances last night.

Hamilton, Tina the musical, Mrs. Doubtfire, Harry Potter, and the cursed child

among the Broadway shows that have had to cancel some performances due to cursed COVID cases,

while the Metropolitan Opera is about to sing for boosters.

The obvious next step is to have booster shots.

There's no way of avoiding it.

GM Peter Gail announcing booster shots will be required starting January 17th.

Well, the biggest concern is just that the city doesn't get shut down again.

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