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>> we're really not seen anything like this before. >> reporter: hospitalizations are up 35% over a month ago. the u.s. now averages nearly 140,000 new covid cases a day and more than 1,200 people are dying each day, on average. and even as early indications suggest omicron may cause milder illness than the delta variant, the sheer number of covid cases could overwhelm already-stretched hospitals. >> one of the things we are very concerned about is in healthcare systems they are already overstretched, literal raly breaking. now, imagine taking 20 or 30% of the healthcare workers out because th...

For ten days. what katty just said, mika, is so important. boris johnson in britain moved from ten days to seven days based on studies. dr. jha is talking about the isolation period moving from ten days to seven days if you're vaxxed. it is so important for our federal government. we have got to be adaptable. we have to be agile. it is so important. if you have omicron, if you're boosted, if you have a breakthrough case, which a lot of people are getting, you're not going to have serious consequences. and if the science says, if the medical studies say that instead of ten days, which we implem...

Democrats alike, dr. patel. on this show, i got a text message from a friend who's got a breakthrough case of covid and this is happening to everyone, right? here's my question. the sort of big takeaways that we've gotten in the last couple of days have been if you are double vaxxed and boosted with a moderna or pfizer vaccine, one of the mrna vaccines, they're highly effective. first at keeping you out of the hospital and protecting you from severe illness, but also, it is said they're very effective in keeping you from getting the omicron variant but it seems like i'm hearing about breakthro...

Patients for developing severe illness when given within three days of symptoms starting. and man, if that is true, that is big news. let's bring in democratic congressman who this week tested positive for a breakthrough case of covid and former obama white house policy director. while on vacation, sorry about that. you've gone through some hurdles in pandemic era traveling. i want to start with both of you. first, congressman. there's this human scale thing. we talk about the stats and what the dominant variant and transmission rates, but ultimately, this is a human story. how you feeling? >>...

Boosted reduces your risk further. while just over 61% of the country is fully vaccinated, less than 20% has gotten a booster shot. even as a new england journal of medicine study says people vaccinated more than six months ago were more than three times more likely to have a breakthrough case of covid than those inoculated more recently. in new york, where more than 70% of fully vaccinated, only about 40% of those eligible have received a booster. there is one potentially positive scientific. >> we have right now about 460 patients in our hospitals. that's less than 10% of our overall capacit...