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Dr. anthony fauci yesterday offering a really helpful framing as we confront this latest covid wave, right? the point he's making is that the case numbers, it's worth watching, but they may not be the most consequential thing right now, if most of the cases we're getting with this omicron wave are cases in which people aren't getting particularly i mean, with this new wave of covid infections, we're having cases around the country, new infections have gone so much that the chart showing our daily case counts, they just look like mistakes. if you chart the case numbers, look at the far right si...

95% of the covid cases in this country are from the omicron variant. just 5% of them believed to be from the delta variant. now, obviously this comes amid that rapid surge of cases we've seen around the country with the country hitting new highs. the white house insists that the focus should not be on case counts, but hospitalizations and deaths. the white house has said that the desire of those vaccines is to try to limit severe illness. as a function ofcases being so high, hospitalizations have gone up as well. hospitalizations now in 20 states have reached a high. certainly there are alarmi...

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Getting together. hospitalizations of course tend to lag case counts. we're already seeing hospitalizations rising again, now averaging at levels not seen since the end of september. are you worried about whether the nation's healthcare system can handle this over the next few weeks? >> oh, absolutely. and we're going to see maybe greatest stress test of our hospitals since the beginning of this pandemic. so, mind you, before omicron, parts of this country were stressed to begin with. parts of the midwest, places like michigan were almost in crisis mode then. and then this tremendously contagi...

Your reporting. >> thanks, paula. with me now are dr. amish adull gentleman, senior scholar at johns hopkins university. all right. doctor, i want to start with you. we know the u.s. is averaging more than 386,000 cases a day. hospitalizations haven't risen as much. we know those numbers usually lag case counts. so from what you were seeing, do you think the health care system could be overwhelmed in the next few weeks? >> i certainly think that there are certain regions of the country where there are high risk people that are not vaccinated where you're going to see capacity compromised. th...