peak. south africa's top scientist says he expects other country to follow the same trajectory. here is as snapshot of new york city verses 2020. there are many more cases currently than in march and april of last year. this latest strain is much more contagious. when you look at the number of hospitalizations, here is ahead of the new york city healthcare system with an update on the city's icus. >> 11 hospitals currently have 54 patients in our icus due to covid. that's compared to the peak in march 2020 where we had 970.