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Hospital officials in Washington are warning that facilities are heading toward another COVID-19 case peak amid high spread in the community.

Variant thats way stronger than delta coming down the pike? >> well, i think the second part of your sentence is -- is still true. we dont know that if there is potentially another variant which could be more problematic than omicron down the pike. but, you know, if you look sort of historically at viruses do tend to become, at the same time they become more transmissible, oftentimes, become less lethal. sort of trading off lethality for transmissibility. and, you know, we are seeing that with o...

Peaking, whats the hospital situation to look like over the next few weeks? >> yeah. garrett, we are a big country. and so northeast, you know, you might start to see a peak in cases or plateau in cases, but i think some of the states are still going to -- as has been noted before, lag in hospitalization, but there are other parts of the country that are not even at the case peak, and theyre going to see the hospitalizations sort of continue to increase for a bit after that. we are looking for t...

You dont have to be hospitalized with covid for it to screw up your life. do you think were undercounting the total right now? you talk about 8 00,000 cases. think of the people testing at home with rapid tests. maybe asymptomatic, maybe dont want to go through the process of long quarantine. what do you think the real numbers are, and what does that tell us about where the peak might or might not be? >> yeah. yes. absolutely. and the percentage to which the portion of which we might be undercou...

You layer testing, oral antivirals, monoclonals, and masks on top of that but we need to do all of it. this is not a joke. omicron is still dangerous, and we have to employ all those strategies and techniques. >> i mean, sanjay, i guess my question is and -- and it was partly asked. but i mean, just overall, one day -- i mean, is that what happens to viruses? that they -- they gradually weaken over time, and is omicron a sign of that weakening? or is it just a -- this one happens to be a weaker ...

Broadcast an infectious disease expert and professor of medicine at the university of alabama birmingham. doc, thank you very much for staying up with us and coming back on. two weeks ago, in fact, on this broadcast, i was reminded tonight, you said the number of new hospitalizations was really concerning. tell our audience in just the space of two weeks, how your answer to that might change tonight. >> well, its only gotten worse as you showed with the graphs that you just displayed. things are...

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