NYC Plans To Keep Schools Open Amid Covid Surge

The Situation Room with Wolf Blitzer and Pamela Brown

CNN

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3.2 • 865 Ratings

🗓️ 4 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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With Omicron in overdrive, the average number of cases is soaring above 400,000. States, cities, and schools are struggle to move forward despite major disruptions to workplaces, travel, and daily life. New York City Mayor Eric Adams joins to discuss the major pandemic challenges New York City is facing. As cases among children here in the United States explode, the FDA is scrambling to give greater coronavirus protection to younger Americans, including by expanding booster eligibility from ages 12 to 15. 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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0:29.2	Happening now, I'mron in Overdrive, with average daily cases in the United States
0:37.0	now soaring above 400,000. State cities and schools are struggling to move forward despite major
0:44.7	disruptions to workplaces, travel and daily life. I'll speak with the new mayor of
0:50.3	hard-hit New York City, Eric Adams.
0:53.0	Also today, the FDA is now scrambling to give greater COVID
0:56.7	protection to young Americans, including expanding
0:59.9	booster eligibility for ages 12 to 15 as cases among children here in the
1:05.2	United States explode and members of the January 6 select committee reveal
1:10.3	new information about then President Trump's actions
1:13.4	and potentially criminal inaction during the riot.
1:17.5	The panel appears to be breaking through Trump's wall of obstruction
1:21.1	just days before the US marks a full year since the insurrection.
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