Surgeon General Warns Next Few Weeks Of Omicron Wave Will Be Tough

The Lead with Jake Tapper

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🗓️ 18 January 2022

⏱️ 39 minutes

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With the U.S. averaging over 776,00 new Covid cases per day, the Surgeon General, Dr. Vivek Murthy warns the Omicron wave has not yet peaked. Dr. Peter Hotez, from the Texas Children's Hospital, joins to discuss early results from an Israeli study that shows a fourth dose of the Covid vaccine can increase antibodies. The FBI confirms it is investigating the hostage stand-off in which a 44-year-old British national took a rabbi and three others hostage at a Dallas area synagogue on Saturday as a terrorism related incident. Plus, Virginia Governor Youngkin’s first actions in office include repealing the school mask mandate, but several large school districts are already pushing back on his executive order. Hosted by Poppy Harlow in for Jake Tapper. 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	As Reverend Martin Luther King Jr. said, faith is taking the first step even when you don't
0:06.5	see the whole staircase, the lead starts right now.
0:11.7	Some glimmers of hope in one part of the country is the Surgeon General Warren's Omicron
0:15.6	is not done with the United States just yet, and now China is canceling a key part of
0:20.3	the Winter Olympics because of the virus.
0:23.2	Then it's only his first week in office and Virginia's new governor is already in a fight
0:27.6	with the largest school district in his state.
0:30.3	Plus, we're getting a look at the terrifying moments when the hostage situation came to
0:34.7	an end after an hour's long terror attack on a Texas synagogue, the rabbi is sharing
0:39.6	new details about what it was like inside.
0:43.6	Hello, and welcome to this special edition of the lead, I'm Poppy Harlow in for Jake
0:50.0	Tapper.
0:51.0	We begin this hour with our health lead, the US Surgeon General is warning the next few
0:55.0	weeks of the pandemic will be tough.
0:57.3	Dr. Vivek Morthy says Omicron cases have not peaked nationally and that means this virus
1:02.7	will keep spreading at a breakneck pace for now.
1:05.6	A crush of COVID patients means some hospitals are running out of uninfected health care
1:10.0	workers and space to treat other patients in the intensive care units.
1:13.9	More than 156,000 people are now hospitalized with this virus.
1:18.6	Cases in parts of the Northeast do appear to have crested a huge relief for those areas
1:22.7	but as are Nick, what reports it is far from a national trend.
1:27.5	The COVID forecast is improving, looking better, the COVID clouds are parting.
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