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On the other hand, the number of cases is really staggering. one in 45 people the latest estimate got covid in just the past week. we're talking record high number of official case counts. almost 120,000. christmas is not canceled this year, but the prime minister is urging people to be cautious, especially with their older loved ones. he is also appealing to people's christian values to love your neighbor as you'd love yourself. in public health speak, kim, that translates to get your booster shot. listen. >> i hope i could be forgiven for taking pride in the immense spirit of neighborliness ...

Our weather quite diverse, and we've seen it starts in the northeast it is a did in the extreme north and then it moves to the west and then to the south. this is moving a little bit farther, but it gets spread out for a longer period of time. i would say if it peaks in a month's time in south africa, it will be perhaps three to four months here, so we're in it for a while. >> and given that timeline, look, i think everybody has started to shift their focus a little bit from case counts particularly given the vaccination rates to hospitalizations and deaths, and can you see u.s. hospitalizatio...

Cancellations, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds a day, what's going on where you are, steve? >> reporter: chris, it could be another headache inducing day for travelers, 69 flights delayed here at l.a.x., 75 cancelled. we had 1,100 flights across the country cancelled yesterday alone. we could be getting a little break today here in california because we've finally gotten a break in that bad weather. but, again, the trend seemed to be over 100 once again. and of course the virus doing nothing but helping the delays, the cancellations, the disruptions in flight because cases are surging in ca...

But one thing we can all agree on, if there aren't enough hospital beds and you have a heart attack, get in an accident and can't get life-saving treatment you've come to expect, that's something we should avoid and can avoid it. circuit breaker is designed to say for the next five to seven days, let's slow it down a bit. maybe it is a local ordinance like dining capacity would go down or large gatherings, maybe in places that aren't willing to do that, just information to the hospitals to say look, we foresee based on today's case counts and hospital capacity, we can say in a few days you're ...

The globe vaccinated, even with an omicron variant, one, we might not have an omicron variant and two, we might not have the case counts. and to the case counts, it will be very important to look at the shifts in the rate of hospitalization. while we're seeing a lot of people hospitalized, it is nowhere near the percentage from a year ago. so i think that's critical, too. that's a fact vaccines are working. >> dr. patel with a lot. facts which is why you're here. our lead-off guest. thank you for being here tonight. >> thank you. we have a lot more in the program including something i want t...