>> thanks for having me back. we are basically at our pandemic highs right now. that's with a lot of under counting. a lot of states are not reporting. there's no doubt about it, we have more infections in america than at any point in the pandemic. what i expect is the next couple of weeks we will see increasing numbers of infections. our pandemic high was 250,000 in a day. no doubt we will hit half a million. we might hit a million a day. the question will be the hospitals. what's going to happen there? with a milder version, which i expect it will turn on omicron is mild he th, there are enough have not gotten vaccinated or not a booster that hospitals will be strained in the next few weeks. that's what i'm worried about. we need a functioning health care system for everybody, not just people with covid. >> troubling, coronavirus hospitalizations in children are up almost 50% in one week.