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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.

Population have received the vaccine, hospitalizations are not spiking as one might have anticipated. mitch cash -- mitch cats shared more data between now and last year. >> the 11 hospitals have 54 patients in their icu due to covid, that's compared to the peak in march 2020 where we had 970. and the 54 is compared to the lowest we got which was around 20. a few weeks ago, so very very slight increase in the sickest of patients. >> so 54 icu patients, versus 970 on march 2020. that's an apples to apples comparison. that's nearly 20 times less,

>> harris: millions of americans are traveling for the holidays this week. some lawmakers are calling to limit alcohol sales and airport bars or ban it altogether on flights. airlines reported more than 5,600 unruly passenger incidents on planes through december 14th of this year. as of last month, the federal aviation administration open more than 970 investigations of things like passengers plunging flight attendants. and there were 183 investigations and all of 2020. we are going in the wrong directions. some of these incidents have gone viral.

Poland’s president has paid homage to those killed, wounded and persecuted by communist security forces during protests against state-imposed price increases in December 1970.

And took man to the moon should be turned toward conquering this dread disease. [ applause ] >> richard nixon, his state of the union address, 1971, announcing the u.s. was going after cancer in a big way. >> let us make a total national commitment to achieve this goal. >> reporter: remarkably the last television commercial touting the joys of cigarette smoking had aired just weeks before. and until the 970s the word "cancer" was rarely uttered, said aloud. >> it was forbidden. did people 50, 60 years ago think cancer was contagious? >> that was part of the reason but i think also such a bad d...