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Average daily COVID-19 cases and hospitalizations are continuing to fall in the U.S., providing a signal that the Omicron variant is receding across the country.

The US reported 1.35 million new COVID-19 cases on Monday, logging the highest daily total for any country in the world during the pandemic.

Hospitals across the US are beginning to fill up with COVID-19 patients again, but a smaller proportion of cases are severe enough to move to intensive care or require mechanical ventilation.

>> it is important to note the crisis, for sure. its also notable that its not everywhere, right? talk about where it is happening and why. >> it is happening most where you would expect it to happen most, where vaccination rates are low and where politically leaders are resisting all efforts to mask and take basic common sense measures to protect the population. look at the i.c.u. bed utilization by state, and everywhere that its red, theyre above at least 70%. and when you get to the dark red ...

♪ hospitals across the country are nearing capacity. they are struggling to cope with this wave of covid infections. just listen to this alabama department of public health officer describing the situation there. >> because hospitals can expand within their own four walls and add some alternative spaces, we actually got to a negative number, which is remarkable. we have more critically ill patients than we actually have beds. this is the highest we have seen. you know, this is the whole reas...

He detailed this past week as one of the most exhausting and disheartening of his career, adding, theres been a lot of talk about personal freedoms and mandates and government overreach and such. and some day when the sun is shining again, we can sit down and have some interesting conversations about all that. he writes. i might even agree with you on some of those points, but i cant do that today, not today, because there are no beds. many health professionals across the country are echoing t...

And government overreach and such and some day when the sun is shining again we can sit down and have some interesting conversations about all that. i might even agree with you on some of those points, but i cant do that today. not today because there are no beds. tom forman is joining us now with the latest numbers. and theyre alarming, tom. >> they are, brianna. all across this country and intensive care units this draw 345 is playing out. this is the load on icu bed utilization by state in ge...

Of icu beds or soon will be. cnns tom foreman joining us now. walk us through how dire this situation is? >> reporter: what were seeing right now are the kind of numbers that i have typically seen in natural disasters in a regional area in the sense that hospitals are being overwhelmed. look at the icu bed utilization by state. everything that is dark red here, theyre more than 90% on the use of their icu beds, all the lighter red ones over 80%. so that is a huge load on them. and look at the im...