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The omicron variant is now in every state in the us, and is spreading faster than any of the previous iterations of the virus. the cdc says omicron now accounts for 73% of all us cases, though the vast majority of the 1,300 daily deaths are still caused by the delta variant, because deaths lag a few weeks behind infections. the highly contagious nature of omicron means an unprecedented number of cases across the country is likely in the coming days and weeks. as it stands, the daily us covid cas...

Packed by omicron, hopefully less severe than delta. i have to go to great lengths to say not yet peer reviewed. what do you make nevertheless of that information? >> so id be very careful about it, michael, and heres why. both in south africa and in the u.k. their omicron came -- dovetailed right into their big delta wave. its not like it went down and now its going up like here in the united states. so a lot of the people who got omicron were actually omicron reinfections upon delta. that may ...

Performing tests or those without data. by balancing speed with safety we have taken numerous actions to accurate and reliable at-home tests. mike barnicle, you have the next question. >> yes. specifically what tests were destroyed? what were the tests aimed at achieving? >> thats not my reporting. thats "the new york times" reporting. abbott labs said later complete tests werent destroyed but they did shut down a factory and the reason for that is over the summer of 2021 we had the vaccines. pe...

Vaccination rate than the u.s., there is also a lot of zero prevalence, theyre a lot of people have had covid, they were coming off of a huge delta wave in that country, so those combined form a patchwork of immunity wall, right? >> exactly. yes, for sure. >> doctor spencer, let me ask you we have spoken to you throughout this pandemic you worked all over the world in very intense situations of viral outbreak he, you were a doctor during the ebola crisis, you were in new york during the first wa...

-- hospitalizations from the delta wave that never sort of subsided. and now it sort of moving northeast, weve also got the staffing issues. here in new york city, got a lot of staff in new york city hospitals that are tight that are testing positive. -- basically you cant search a circuit thats been burned out. and theres simply no few zeke that can fix the fact that were fried. theres just a certain level of constraint thats going to make this difficult either way. even if that real world data...

Other parts of the country are in an omicron firestorm. here are the vulnerables. first of all, i think there is a narrative out there, happy talk that covid omicron is less severe than previous lineages. we dont really know that. part of the reason i say that is both in south africa and the uk, what happened there is omicron dove tailed right on their delta wave. as a consequence, most of those or a lot of those omicron infections were actually reinfections. so it may have given the illusion th...

Vaccinated. they need to focus on getting vaccinated and boosted. the highest risk population and then from there we need to make sure that we have treatments available if and when they do get sick. carley: conversation almost exclusively on testing yesterday. is there such a thing as overtesting a population even asymptomatic people? >> carley, test something very important. that gives us an idea of what is going on and where the cases are. i can say though he is talking about -- they didnt exp...

Immunity any longer. heres a hypothetical. if more had gotten on board at the outset when vaccines first became available and all got vaxed, or a much higher percentage got vaxed than actually did, would we be in a much different place today? >> no doubt about it. no doubt about it. we would have prevented the almost 200,000 americans who died in the delta wave. and what we also would have done is gone into this omicron wave with much, much higher levels of population immunity, lower levels of i...

And its going to be hard to handle another surge. >> no slack. you wrote a piece on that really that i think is very moving and people should go look at that. professor osterholm, do you -- the test surge -- you know, 500 million new tests. but not for a few weeks. dont we need these tests yesterday? >> well, we do. and we do have some testing. but what were going to need, i think, over the course of the next two to eight weeks is going to be remarkable. we are going to see this big surge nagtio...

Discussing the delta wave and surge hit a limited number of states over the last four months. if you are one of those states like here in minnesota or parts of new york you understand the siege situation with what delta has done. but thats -- if you talk to people in california theyll ask you what is going on? what are you concerned about? that is going to change with this particular variant. i think well see all 50 states in the soup about the same time so testing needs will go up tremendously....