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Vaccination. and we know vaccination helps address omicron. >> reporter: still undecided on whether crowds will fill times square for new year's eve. as covid infections have upended the worlds of sports and entertainment forcing "saturday night live" to cancel its live audience. the nba, nhl also postponing games and schools like harvard university moving graduate and professional schools to online classes for the first three weeks of january. health workers and government officials increasingly focused on boosters. >> we see those who are vaccinated, those who received their booster, aren't ...

Into the winter. >> reporter: america, bracing for a tough winter that's beginning to look a lot like last winter. already in the midst of a delta surge, the new omicron variant accounting for just under 3% of cases. but spreading fast. >> this virus is extraordinary. it has a doubling time of anywhere from 2 to 3 days. it's going to take over. >> reporter: the u.s. now averaging about 1200 deaths a day and 130 new covid-19 cases a day. that figure up 10% from a week ago. hospitalizations nationwide up 35% over last month. and intensive care unit beds nearly 80% full. cases rising much faster ...

Weekend shows that if left unchecked, infections in denmark could be ten times that number, followed by record high hospital admissions by christmas and well beyond in the new year. charles is the epidemiologist in charge of managing the risk of new variants in denmark, a country blessed with more than three quarters of its population double vaccinated. but dans are quickly discovering that two shots are no match for the new more infectious variant. and the booster shot program simply cannot keep up. denmark has among the highest rates of testing and sequencing in the world, and has ream data ...

Whether they cannot cope with any more restrictions, only 10% say that they cannot do that. so there is no real sign of fatigue yet. >> it sound like danes are rule followers. >> to a large extent, we are rule followers, but it is not sort of blind obedience. it is because we feel that we are being explained why we need to do it and what we need to do. >> reporter: his research found americans followed covid rules to a lesser extent than danes, but omicron won't hit the u.s. any less hard. >> i think that we will be facing very tough times across the world with omicron. and the only thing that...

Charge of the trump investigations. the incoming manhattan da talks exclusively to cnn. welcome to "the lead." i'm pamela brown in for jake tapper. we start with the health lead and covid cases spiking across the u.s. we're now averaging 130,000 every day. that's up 10% in a week. hospitalizations are also up about 35% in the last month. with about 1 in 5 of all icu beds in this country taken up by a covid patient. health officials warn the highly contagious omicron variant will soon be responsible for most cases. but for now, it's that other superspreader, the delta variant, driving this de...