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Like -- well, it looks like were in for as-yet unprecedented times. joining us now is dr. ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, thank you for being here tonight, as always. >> thank you for having me back, rachel. >> am i looking at this the right way? i felt like i took great comfort from the early numbers in new york city when they started seeing their case numbers skyrocket and they did not see hospitalization numbers rise in parallel. i feel like those nu...

Were in for, as yet, unprecedented times. joining us now is dr. ashish jha, dean of the brown university school of public health. dr. jha, thank you for being here tonight, as always. >> thank you for having me back, rachel. >> am i looking at this the right way? i felt like i took great comfort from the early numbers in new york city when they started seeing their case numbers skyrocket and they did not see hospitalization numbers rise in parallel. i feel like those numbers, which ive been look...

0 they are going to put down and lay down the law to. it >> not there yet. >> its coming, dont worry. im in communication with their kids on. this dont worry. planning the and thanks to you at home for joining us at this hour, happy new year to you as well, good to have you back with us. in washington, d.c., they celebrated the first day after the holiday by getting a huge pile of snow dumped on the capitol cap capito capital city and shutting down most of the federal government because of it....

With a note of caution. >> yeah. thats the important part. we always are looking for the good news, and so am i all the time with this. south africa up, down, very low peak in hospitalizations and death. thats great. the uk is showing a similar. they have had a two-month delta wave before we have. we look different. so we to need to be cautious. be cautious that, you know, even if it is only 25% as severe, we are seeing cases four or five times higher than what we were with delta, we could be in...

Bringing new fears and uncertainty over what is yet to come. in south africa, where the variant was first detected, new infections are falling and theres good reason to believe the worst has passed. dana mckenzie has the front line workers who have been on the front lines of the new wave of the pandemic. >> reporter: dispatched south of johannesburg, he says omicron is nothing like delta. >> during then, covid, covid, covid. nothing else. are you able to walk, sir? >> reporter: we were with them...

Thanks for being here. just take off from what i was talking about with dr. ramirez, what are you seeing, what is the reality of what is happening inside of hospitals right now? >> well, ill tell you here in michigan, we are still stuck in this delta wave, were seeing more cases of omicron pop up, but hospitalizations from this virus tend to last a very long time. and so, were about week six or seven now of this surge, around christmas we had a slight dip in our number of hospitalized covid pati...

Lets go live to one of those testing sites now. leyla santiago is at one of the busiest locations in south florida. i understand officials there are seeing a massive increase in people wanting tests, even bigger than from the peak of the delta surge? >> thats correct. youre talking about a 50% increase in the demand for testing, compared to the peak of what we saw during that delta wave. so lets go over the numbers. where we are right now, the busiest testing site in south florida. they administ...

Testing site in miami. layla, how long is the wait for people there? >> you know, it kind of varies around what time you come, but bottom line it is hours. people have been telling us anywhere from two to three hours, and, you know, this is one of the busiest sites in miami-dade county. it is run by n ho mi health. they tell me that this site in particular, they administered nearly 9,000 tests yesterday. countywide 60,000, and let me put that in perspective for you. when you compare that to the ...

Across miami-dade county. let me put that in perspective for you. thats about a 50% increase compared to the peak during the delta wave. so that really speaks to the volume, the increase and the demand for testing. as a result today, miami d-dade county has opened two more sites and have plans to open more in the next few days because thats what they have do to meet that challenge as so many people coming to get tested given how quickly omicron is spreading and given the holiday gatherings that ...

Delta wave. does he think the american people are that forgetful or that stupid? carley we spoke about this over the weekend, what we spoke about was a pandemic of positive tests. asymptomatic healthy people out there coming back on the regular with positive coronavirus, you know, test and that is causing a work shortage, a labor shortage in almost every single industry. i know this its happening in the media industry, its happening in the airline industry. its happening in professional sports i...